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Tag: Mets

How Steven Matz’s Agent Landed The Mets Max Scherzer

December 11, 2021 Alex Worth Baseball, Team Contributors

A week before the lockout, which has frozen baseball transactions with no sign of a resolution, the Mets had just lost out on top pitching target Steven Matz, who chose St Louis over a return to New York. Mets COO

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Mets Lose Noah Syndergaard to Tommy John Surgery

March 26, 2020 Alex Worth Baseball, Team Contributors

Well, if you didnt think the situation regarding baseball could get a whole lot worse, it just did. It was announced on Tuesday evening that Mets starter Noah Syndergaard has torn his ulnar collateral ligament in his right arm and

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A Brit Learning Baseball Through Books: The Summer Game and Living Forever

September 6, 2018 Paddy Johnston Baseball, Opinion

“Since baseball time is measured only in outs, all you have to do is succeed utterly; keep hitting, keep the rally alive, and you have defeated time. You remain forever young. Sitting in the stands, we sense this, if only

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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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In Tebow, Minor League Baseball Stands on the Shoulder of a Giant

June 25, 2018 Bat Flips Admin Baseball, Pinch Hitting

Why did we let John get his writing mojo back? It’s time to stop taking the high road and to admit – Tim Tebow is good for baseball, especially in the minor leagues. Yet another story surfaced this week about

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Learning to Baseball – Really Learning to Baseball

July 3, 2017 Steve Wright Baseball

You don’t really need to understand baseball to watch great baseball movies because at their core they are metaphors for life rather than sporting action. If you are going to support a team though and watch some games it all

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Battlegrounds Profile: Cliff Floyd

June 21, 2017 Darius Austin Baseball

With MLB UK’s Battlegrounds event on July 4th fast approaching, it’s time we get to know the former MLB players who will be starring on the day. First up is an Expos, Marlins and Mets outfielder who spent 17 seasons

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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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Learning to Baseball 2 – ‘You Lost All Our Cards!’

June 8, 2017 Bat Flips Admin Baseball

Steve Wright returns… As a younger sibling those words, taken from the opening scene of the 1986 New York Mets World Series song, resonated with me. Whoever had been reckless enough to lay that prized collection of baseball cards on

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Learning to Baseball – Discovering Baseball Through Film

May 30, 2017 Bat Flips Admin Baseball

Making his B&N debut, with a new feature, welcome Steve Wright… I fell in love with baseball before I had any clue about the game. Specifically, in the initial stages, it was movies that made the introductions. I wanted to

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