Chicago White Sox ace Lucas Giolito joins John to chat about his season so far, remodelling his pitching arsenal and how he wants to continuously improve, the vibe in the White Sox clubhouse and his desire to use his platform
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Episode 235 – Keith Law Joins the Show
The brilliant Keith Law, national baseball writer for The Athletic, prospect and draft savant, all round good egg and author of the best selling books ‘Smart Baseball’ and ‘The Inside Game’ joins John to discuss: Being back at the ballpark
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Episode 236 – Shut Up And Play No Hits
John, Darius and Russell tackle the week in MLB, including big thumbs up for the New York Yankees, Patrick Mazeika and the amazing Drew Robinson, but also thumbs down for rubbish outfield defence, pitchers hitting and the Oakland Athletics laying
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Episode 234 – The Milky Way
Emergency podcast with John and Tom basking in the glory of podcast favourite, Wade Miley’s no-hitter. If you want 17 minutes of milking puns, this is the podcast for you. Photo by Frank Jansky Listen to “Episode 234 – The
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Episode 233 – Appreciating Albert
In an unprecedented development, big baseball news breaks before the pod instead of immediately after it. Ben, Russell and Darius react to the Angels designating Albert Pujols for assignment and take a look back at the highlights of his stellar
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Episode 232 – Rowdy Tellez’ Big Round Face
John, Ben and Rob are joined by Jon Mackenzie of Absolute Bunts for this week’s MLB Roundup. They cover the Rockies firing of Jeff Bridich, gambling in baseball and the incredible Jacob DeGrom before offering ‘Two Bad, Two Good’ garlands
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Episode 231 – It’s Bat Flip Season, Baby! (ft. Ben Verlander)
How has this taken us five years to do? Darius, Russell and John carry out BFN’s first ever bat flip draft. To keep it competitive, and get some expert help, they’re joined by host MLB on FOX’s Flippin’ Bats podcast,
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Episode 230 – The Yankees Are Dead
Darius, Russell and Ben join forces to overreact to the Yankees poor start to the season, reflect on whether no-hitters are still exciting and run through 2 Good 2 Bad with shoutouts for Bieber, Kazmar, Segura and Chisholm… Listen to
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Episode 229 – Be Like Freddie
It’s our second weekly roundup show! Ben, Rob, Russell and Darius debate MLB’s mound-moving experiment in the Atlantic League and the merits of recent pitcher dominance, laud Freddie Freeman, Byron Buxton and Yadier Molina, while lamenting headhunting and replay review.
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Episode 228 – On the PISS
Tom is joined by MLB.com’s Anthony Castrovince and Statman extraordinaire, Russell Eassom to begin the life of the greatest baseball stat every created. People in 100 years from now will ask “Where were you when you first heard about PISS?”
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