We always knew that the award races in a 60 game season would be wild. Plenty of columns were written in the run up to the season about the statistical possibilities that a 60 game season throws up, from a
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Tag: Baseball
Review of the Red Sox Opening Home Stand
Well, the Red Sox opening home stretch is over and I think it’s safe to say that it was not as bad as we’d feared. It was worse. Much, much worse. Much had been said in the offseason and Spring
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Podcast Episode 185 – Dan Straily
Veteran MLB hurler Dan Straily talks about his ‘Journeyman’ career in the bigs with Oakland, Houston, the Cubs, Reds and Marlins. He shares stories of taking the field with Giancarlo Stanton in his MVP year, why Christian Yelich has prospered
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CPBL: Lights, Camera, Action – An Interview with Gene Wang
Gene Wang is a sports photojournalist based in Taiwan. He currently spends a lot of time photographing CPBL games. He has kindly taken some time out from his busy schedule to answer some questions, and provide his own personal insight
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An Application of Expected Stats
Welcome back Christopher Gauthier Have you ever been at a game and a player smokes a ball right at someone? Like, had that ball been hit a little more to the left or the right of the fielder, it’s a
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Bat Flips Does Baseball Episode Three: April
After the excitement of the pre-season roster selection and a rollercoaster Opening Day, reality has set in for our two British-based expansion teams as they quickly settled into the grind of everyday baseball. Let’s see where things stand on May
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Bat Flips Does Baseball Episode Two: Opening Day
With the fake rosters created in Episode One, our Bat Flips Does Baseball adventure motored on, as I relinquished control of our new expansion teams and allowed fate to run its course. Fate, as it transpires, loves a trade. Joe
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Bat Flips Does Baseball Episode One: Roster Creation
In the absence of any baseball – or indeed sport – across the world at the moment, I decided it was time to take matters into our own hands. Quite literally in fact. Whilst there are plenty of people out
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Milwaukee Brewers: Why It Is Fine To Be Thin On The Farm
The Milwaukee Brewers are currently the only major league club without a representative in MLB Pipeline’s Top 100 Prospects for 2020. They also have no prospects on Baseball America’s Top-100 prospect list or Baseball Prospectus’ equivalent list. One would imagine
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DFA – Saving Private Pringle
DFA = Dross From Amateurs, we feature posts that don’t quite fit anywhere on the internet. At all. I recently endured* a terrifying parenting moment. (*This never happened) While walking along a busy road, my youngest daughter decided to let
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