By this weekend, all of the league will have played their 81st game of the 162-game regular season. At the time of writing, only Tampa Bay has hit that mark, but it feels like a convenient time to check out
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Tag: Aaron Judge
New York Yankees: My love of baseball
Well, here we are again baseball fans. The opening week of the season. That time of year we all look forward to. Where anything can happen, and we can all have hope. No matter what team we support. My love
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Build A Perfect Franchise: Not As Easy As You Think
The premise is simple; create the perfect baseball franchise from scratch. The idea was suggested by The Athletic’s MLB senior managing editor, Sarah Goldstein, but bizarrely, she did not invite Bat Flips & Nerds to participate, instead favouring The Athletic’s
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San Francisco Giants: Carlos Correa is a Giant*
* Update: A week after publishing this post, Correa’s introductory press conference in San Francisco was postponed. His medical exam raised an issue that made the Giants reconsider the deal and before you knew it, Correa was off to the
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2022 Retrospective Series – New York Yankees
On the surface you would say this was a good season for the Yankees, they comfortably won the division which wasn’t the prediction of many pundits going into the season. But it ended in a sweep to their new arch-rivals
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Episode 297 – QUALIFIED
The team go deep on Great Britain Baseball’s historic qualification for the 2023 WBC, including the tensest game of baseball we have ever watched and hat tips for a bunch of new heroes as well as some old ones. Oh,
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Episode 289 – All Caps*
Russell and Darius break down the first proper baseball brawl for years before marvelling at Aaron Judge and the Yankees. They then go in-depth on the All-Star voting and, more importantly, All-Star cap designs. Listen to “Episode 289 – All
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The Curious Case of Selecting an A’s All-Star
In recent weeks, the A’s social media channels, along with Glen Kuiper and Dallas Braden during the A’s game broadcasts on NBC Sports California, have been encouraging fans to vote on which A’s player should go to the All-Star game.
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So you think you know the Yankees?
Fantasy baseball Friday: Hitters who tend to start Hot
With Opening Day getting underway, I wanted to have some fun and look back at the last four full seasons (2016-2019) to see who are some guys that historically get out to hot starts. To define hot starts, I looked at
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