Happy New Year everyone. Hope you all enjoyed the Christmas and New Year season, and were able to find time for some rest and relaxation. Prior to the festivities, there was a flurry of activity to start the MLB off-season.
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Happy New Year everyone. Hope you all enjoyed the Christmas and New Year season, and were able to find time for some rest and relaxation. Prior to the festivities, there was a flurry of activity to start the MLB off-season.
Read moreIn the late hours of Tuesday 13 December 2022, news broke on the West Coast that the San Francisco Giants had made their long awaited splash in the free-agent market. Carlos Correa is now a Giant. Cue fireworks and confetti.
Read moreThe Marlins did it again this year. They had one of the best pitchers in the league but the offence was horrid. Last year it was almost a Rookie of the Year in the form of Trevor Rogers. This year,
Read moreThat’s another season in the books for the Oakland Athletics. How to describe the A’s season? BFN editor Gavin has already described it as “dismal”, while another A’s fan privately said to me that this article would need to be
Read moreThe San Francisco Giants entered 2022 with high expectations. Nobody said they were guaranteed to win 107 games again but there was a certain level of competitiveness expected. After the lofty heights of 2021, surely the Giants would be back
Read moreSeven years on, it’s easy to forget that the Chicago Cubs’ decision to sign Jason Heyward to an 8-year, $184 million deal in 2016 was met with media fanfare. Jesse Rogers of ESPN described the outfielder as “an all-around player
Read moreI recently got back from a few days in the great city of Boston. Given the history attached to the ballpark, I made a point of going to a game at Fenway Park while I was there, taking in the
Read moreWilmer Flores is one of my favourite Giants. If you took a poll among Giants fans strolling through the gates of Oracle Park, I bet you they’d say something similar. Flores is undoubtedly a fan favourite these days, and over
Read moreJust when you think you’ve got these Chicago Cubs pegged, something happens to blow that perception out of the water. Take last week’s trade deadline, for example. It looked for all the world as if Jed Hoyer would move Willson
Read moreWhen Buster Posey announced his retirement in November 2021, the stage was set for his successor to usher in a new era of Giants baseball. The man who would follow Posey was always going to tread a difficult path. How
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