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Fantasy baseball 2022: Year of the bounceback

January 6, 2022 GavGavinGavlaar Baseball, Fantasy Baseball

No one knows if the season will start on time, but we do know that it is never too early to start preparing for your fantasy baseball league. Without any plan or preparation, I ran a mock draft earlier today,

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What’s the point of the Mets?

September 5, 2021 GavGavinGavlaar Baseball, Opinion

Steven Cohen bought the Mets in November 2020, having outbid singer/actor/producer Jennifer Lopez and her (then) fiancé, the former Texas Rangers shortstop, Alex Rodriguez. Cohen indicated a reversal of the existing Mets culture with the proclamation of “I want professionalism.

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January baseball news: in case you missed it

January 31, 2021 GavGavinGavlaar Baseball, Opinion

At Bat Flips and Nerds we appreciate that not all baseball fans salivate over every minute scrap of news on a daily [hourly?] basis. So for more normal baseball fans, here are a few of the main January storylines. Although

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It’s been a while! So let’s talk everything Mets

January 18, 2021 Alex Worth Baseball, Team Contributors

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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Indians include free Cookie in Lindor trade to Mets

January 7, 2021 GavGavinGavlaar Baseball, Opinion

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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Cleveland Indians: Let’s talk trades

August 12, 2020 Ash Day Baseball, Team Contributors

Even in this mutant 60-game sprint of a 2020 season, there is a trade deadline. This year the date falls on August 31, and aspiring champions are already busy stalking the bottom feeders in a bid to pick off their

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An introduction to your 2020 Cleveland Indians

February 27, 2020 Ash Day Baseball, Team Contributors

There’s no sugarcoating it, the Cleveland Indians are not a glamorous team. Despite being a ballclub steeped in history, they are rarely mentioned in the same breath as the storied Red Sox, Yankees, Cubs, and Cardinals. They don’t engender that

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Is this the end of an era for the Cleveland Indians?

January 28, 2020 GavGavinGavlaar Baseball, Opinion

In a recent tweet, fantasy baseball writer Scott White lamented that 21 of the 22 teams in his dynasty league were rebuilding. This sad state of affairs shows how easy it is for fantasy baseball players to throw in the

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Why are the Yankees so tight?

July 18, 2019 GavGavinGavlaar Baseball, Opinion

There are many reasons why the Oakland Athletics continue to fail to win the World Series during Billy Beane’s tenure. One much-talked about suggestion is that the postseason is a “crapshoot”. Randomness has a bigger influence over the short 5-game/7-game

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JUST ACCEPT IT, PECOTA HATES YOUR TEAM

February 10, 2019 GavGavinGavlaar Baseball, Opinion

Baseball Prospectus has just released their PECOTA projections for 2019, and you know what? They hate your team. The funny thing is, PECOTA is not opinion, yet MLB players, managers and fans take it personally. An acronym for Player Empirical

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