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Tag: Giants

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

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San Francisco Giants 2020: Reasons for optimism

February 5, 2020 GavGavinGavlaar Baseball, Opinion

What happened in 2019? Lots! The franchise said goodbye to their manager of 13 years, Bruce Bochy. He oversaw as many wins as he did defeats, but guiding the Giants to three World Series Championships in the 2010s surely cements

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Three possible mystery teams in the Harper stakes

January 20, 2019 GavGavinGavlaar Opinion

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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Synchronicity – Undercover at Dodger Stadium

July 23, 2018 Bat Flips Admin Baseball

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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Tanking is Stupid, Think of the Fans!

January 5, 2018 Bat Flips Admin Baseball, Opinion, Pinch Hitting

Here with a hard-hitting polemic is our new Thunderer, Chris Brown… Residents of Florida this year must be hoping that Spring Training gets extended, because it seems at the moment that March is the only time they’ll get to see

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Post-Winter Meetings Transactions Round 2 – You Set the Fire in Me, CC

December 17, 2017 Darius Austin Baseball

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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Secret Agent Jeter? More Like Officer Dibble

December 10, 2017 Bat Flips Admin Baseball, Pinch Hitting

A theory took hold last night, perpetuated by marks such as Boston superfan Bill Simmons and Marlins beat reporter Dan LeBatard, that Miami’s decision to trade Giancarlo Stanton to the New York Yankees for a package light of prospects but

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Baseball Is Coming (in 2019/2020)

July 29, 2017 Thomas Pringle Baseball, Pinch Hitting

Yesterday Major League Baseball’s collective bargaining agreement (CBA) for 2017-2021 was draft complete and released. Included within the weighty tome, was information we in the UK have been waiting for. A series of games will be coming to the British

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Learning to Baseball – Thirty Years Later, I Went To A Game

June 17, 2017 Bat Flips Admin Baseball

So, I had fallen for the Mets and I had fallen for baseball but what I really wanted was to sit in the stands to watch a game and roughly thirty years later here I was. Well you get side-tracked

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Episode 33 – Gryffindor Gosewisch & Gammon Samardzija

June 11, 2017 Bat Flips Admin Baseball

Ben and Tom join John in wondering how to pronounce Scooter Gennett’s surname, whether anyone saw his four homers under that came uni, and to dig deep on the roasting hot Houston Astros. As ever, fan questions lead things to

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