Full disclosure: I love watching Trevor Bauer pitch. I don’t think there is another starter out there that I will actively make the effort to tune into his outings. He’s not the best, but he is compelling. I love that
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Won’t Somebody Think Of The Umpires
Man vs machine. A battle as old as time. Or at least as old as machines. Robot umpires have been a part of the baseball conversation for several years now, as increasingly reliable PITCHf/x and Statcast data gives us immediate
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Episode 208 – BASEBALL PROSPECTUS Top 101
Tom is back! And joins Darius and Russell in discussion with Jarrett Seidler and Jeffrey Paternostro of Baseball Prospectus They break down BP’s Top 101 prospects, including: How the list comes together Balancing stats and scouting Their biggest disagreements Mackenzie
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What does 2021 have in store for the AL East?
It seems like a lifetime ago since I watched Blake Snell (and later Justin Turner for different reasons) slouch off the field at Globe Life Park in Arlington in Game Six of the World Series. It was the closest the
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Bat Flips and Nerds Minor League Free Agent Draft
Inspired by Effectively Wild, the best baseball podcast on that side of the Atlantic, we at Bat Flips and Nerds decided to embark on our own Minor League Free Agent Draft. To spice up the event, we pitted ourselves against
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It’s been a while! So let’s talk everything Mets
So, it’s been a while since I wrote anything about the Mets for Bat Flips and Nerds. So while the optimism is sky-high for Mets fans right now, why not write an article to summarise the madness that these last
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Episode 207 – Not a Draft, Possibly an Outlander Promo
The whole gang – except Tom – convene to pick out their favourite moments from 2020, before discussing what they’re most looking forward to in 2021. It’s not just about Outlander, honest. Listen to “Episode 207 – Not a Draft,
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Indians include free Cookie in Lindor trade to Mets
In one deal, the New York Mets catapulted themselves into serious World Series contenders and potentially secured the services of their “face of the franchise” for the rest of the decade. The deal, in case you missed it, sees the
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2021 Free agents: Pay the DJ
Yeah, I get it. The tsunami of data available across baseball has allowed clubs to save millions upon millions of dollars by demonstrating that the expected production from a 32-year-old free agent could be only marginally different from a player
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Tampa Bay Rays: Warding off doom-mongers in 2021
I have been a Rays fan for over a decade. Every offseason is a carbon copy of the last. No matter how well the previous season has gone the Rays are constantly written off, constantly overlooked and yet almost every
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