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The Unofficial MLB Player Championship

April 8, 2021 Russell Eassom Baseball

There are many ways to determine who is the best player in a sport right now, especially baseball, but most are fraught with debate on which methods and stats are better. There are a few major sports however which generally

One Metric to Focus on For Every SF Giants Hitter – Infield

March 18, 2021 Charlie Baldwin Baseball, Team Contributors

In my debut article for Batflips and Nerds, I thought it would be interesting to see if I could find one key statistic to focus on for every Giants positional player. My choice of players is based on who I

Ranking The Top 10 Spring Training Storylines

February 16, 2021 Ben Carter Baseball

This week, pitchers and catchers flock to Arizona and Florida as baseball once again awakens from its deep, long slumber over winter. Nothing beats those sounds of pitches smacking gloves and sights of pristinely kept fields baking in the early-year

Won’t Somebody Think Of The Umpires

January 27, 2021 Ben Carter Baseball, Opinion

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

The NL MVP Race Is Going To Be Fun

August 25, 2020 Ben Carter Baseball, Opinion

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

Review of the Red Sox Opening Home Stand

July 30, 2020 Richard Hampson Baseball, Team Contributors

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

Podcast Episode 185 – Dan Straily

June 22, 2020 Bat Flips Admin Baseball

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

CPBL: Lights, Camera, Action – An Interview with Gene Wang

May 11, 2020 Helen Atkinson Baseball, Pinch Hitting, Team Contributors

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

An Application of Expected Stats

May 6, 2020 Bat Flips Admin Analytics, Baseball, Beginner's Guide

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

Bat Flips Does Baseball Episode Three: April

April 19, 2020 Ben Carter Baseball, Bat Flips Does OOTP

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