Giancarlo Stanton – Bat Flips and Nerds

A decade of baseball in 101 useless stats

January 13, 2020 GavGavinGavlaar Baseball, Opinion

On Sunday 4 April 2010, Boston Red Sox starting pitcher Josh Beckett induced weak contact from New York Yankees Derek Jeter in the first MLB play of the decade. Here are 100 more useless snippets of information for you. Unless

London Series preview: Designated hitter

June 25, 2019 GavGavinGavlaar Baseball, London Series, Opinion

One of the greatest rivalries in sport crosses the Atlantic to be fought out over two games at the end of June when the New York Yankees take on the Boston Red Sox in London. The Bat Flips and Nerds

Fantasy fixer: Injured list

March 29, 2019 GavGavinGavlaar Fantasy Baseball

There are already over 120 players on the injured list; many were added just hours before the first pitch of their Opening Day game, making it almost impossible for fantasy baseball players to grab replacements. An important task this weekend

Baseball chinwag with Al Melchior

March 6, 2019 GavGavinGavlaar Baseball, Fantasy Baseball, Opinion

If baseball analysts had nicknames, Al Melchior would be the professor, so it was not surprising to discover that he is a former political science professor from Florida International University. Al has been writing about fantasy baseball since the turn

Revisiting Baseball Brit taking on PECOTA

February 15, 2019 GavGavinGavlaar Baseball, Opinion

Hopefully, you read the previous article reviewing 2019 PECOTA projections, entitled “Just accept it, PECOTA hates your team”, and you are still in the mood for more discussion about projections. As you know, PECOTA is the algorithm from Baseball Prospectus

Three minutes on the Los Angeles Angels

February 9, 2019 GavGavinGavlaar Opinion

It is hard to argue that the Angels were not the most exciting MLB team to watch last season: Shohei Ohtani pitching, Shohei Ohtani hitting, Andrelton Simmons’ wizardry at shortstop and of course, Mike Trout, the greatest player on the

What is the collective noun for a group of terrible contracts?

February 2, 2019 GavGavinGavlaar Baseball, Opinion

My first thought was an albatross. These sort of contracts used to be called “player-friendly”, but now they are dismissed by clubs and the media as bad deals. We can all see that as teams become more analytically savvy, fewer

Three Minutes on the Miami Marlins

February 2, 2019 GavGavinGavlaar Baseball, Opinion

An uncharitable friend suggested that this article was two minutes, 30 seconds too long, but that it is to underestimate the plans that are being undertaken to transform the Marlins into a winning franchise. Nobody said it would be easy.

Size doesn’t matter: The vertically-challenged team

January 25, 2019 GavGavinGavlaar Baseball, Opinion

What is the ideal body shape for a baseball player? Does size matter? Check out the stars in our “vertically-challenged” team before you decide. When you see Aaron Judge swaggering around like some sort of Adonis, it’s difficult to believe

We Were There: The joy of the rebuild

March 29, 2018 Bat Flips Admin Baseball, Pinch Hitting

Aaron Murray joins us for the first time to write about the joy of a rebuild. He submitted this post via the “Contribute Here” page above. Want to write for us? Do the same as Aaron! We’re hours away from