The foundation for any team’s success is their starting pitching. No matter how many bombs get sent into the fans, or how many bases are stolen, a team will not be considered a “contender” if there aren’t a number of
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LA Dodgers Spring Training: Early Impressions
Ah… spring training. A chance to get a taste of the new season! Teams are testing out their lineups, pitchers are tinkering with new pitches, and it’s a chance to see some new faces from the minor leagues, fighting for
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Los Angeles Dodgers 2020: Reasons for optimism
What happened in 2019? On the back of two World Series defeats, the Dodgers had their sights set on October as soon as Chris Sale struck out Manny Machado for the last out in Game Five of the 2018 World
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Who to support in September if your team has been eliminated
Games matter more in September. They don’t of course. But they also do. As chances to make up deficits grow thinner and the magic numbers trickle down into single digits, the spotlight shines bright on teams on the precipice –
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Three possible mystery teams in the Harper stakes
News will break shortly that the largest ever MLB free agent contract has been agreed. Will Bryce Harper sign it with one of the frontrunners or is there a mystery team? The favourites to land the superstar are the “spending
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On a Picture of Nathan Eovaldi, Sat October 27 2018, 12.23am
Since Sunday gone, a great number of words have been spared for Nathan Eovaldi and his Herculean feats in the 2018 World Series. He was, it’s been said, the inspiration for his Boston Red Sox team’s come from behind Game
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Synchronicity – Undercover at Dodger Stadium
Welcome to Bat Flips & Nerds, Geoff Enderby… If you take the elevator to the top of the tower of City Hall in Los Angeles you can see far into the California distance, the L.A. river glamourised in Terminator 2
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Tom’s Bumper Fantasy Baseball Style MLB Standings Extravaganza – June Update
In our first part, we looked at me dressed in a Pirates t-shirt and we discovered I could do VLOOKUP on excel. I also explained exactly what I’m trying to do here, so rather than me explain it all again,
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Post-Winter Meetings Transactions Round 2 – You Set the Fire in Me, CC
Matt Kemp to the Dodgers for Adrian Gonzalez, Brandon McCarthy, Scott Kazmir, Charlie Culberson, and $4.5M There are a lot of big names and big contracts involved in this deal, and yet it is an upsettingly underwhelming blockbuster trade. In
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California Dreaming – Part One
Here to recap a Los Angeles baseball experience, it’s Paul Mitchell… Traffic in Los Angeles isn’t as bad as you may have heard – it’s worse. A family holiday to California in July brought the opportunity to see some West
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