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LA Dodgers Spring Training: Early Impressions

March 4, 2020 Peter Souter Baseball, Team Contributors

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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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

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Cubs' Jason Heyward

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

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How to measure a pitchers overall performance?

December 1, 2018 Russell Eassom Analytics, Baseball

The question of how good someone is at a task extends beyond baseball. In professional sports where there are now very large sums of money involved in player development and contracts, it has become a question people want to be

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Analytics and its effects on the MLB – The Bunt

October 6, 2018 Russell Eassom Analytics, Baseball

Each year I see another ex-professional baseball player come out and say analytics is ‘killing the game’, this year it was the ex-Nationals and Phillies outfielders Jayson Werth. In August he said “I think it’s killing the game. It’s to

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The Cy Young Case for Blake Treinen

September 26, 2018 Russell Eassom Analytics, Baseball

The following is a case for why Blake Treinen should be considered as a Cy Young candidate. I am not certain if he should win but what I am about to detail is why he should get some votes and

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Welcome to the Blow-pen – A Brief Guide to the 2017 Washington Nationals ‘Pen

June 18, 2017 Bat Flips Admin Baseball, Opinion, Pinch Hitting

Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past few weeks, you’ll have noticed one of the major talking points in the Major leagues has been the Nats bullpen seemingly giving away leads like they’re going out of style.

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Season So Far – LA Dodgers

June 15, 2017 Bat Flips Admin Baseball

Welcome to B&N, Birmingham’s premier Dodgers enthusiast Leon Boyne From a view approximately 8,588.61 km away, the Dodgers have made a very solid start to the 2017 season but despite the apparent demise of the San Francisco Giants, they still

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Top Five GIFs Of The Week: Week Seven

May 23, 2017 Ben Carter Baseball

I have good news! If you like GIFs that is. And if you don’t, you’ve almost certainly come to the wrong place. The lovely guys over at MLB UK have taken mercy on my GIF-hunting efforts and provided me with

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