MLB – Bat Flips and Nerds

Talk the Talk and Intentionally Walk the Walk

May 18, 2019 Russell Eassom Baseball

Intentional walks or base on balls have been around for a long time in baseball. Early on in baseball, the catcher could set up much further away from the plate than they can do know. They would receive four wide

From The Press Box – April

April 19, 2019 Bat Flips Admin Baseball, MLB UK, Pinch Hitting

Rachel Steinberg returns to begin a regular column. You can find her BFN debut here. Welcome to From the Press Box, a weekly attempt to round up the best of the UK media’s reporting on our favourite sport. I’m not

Baseball’s unwritten rules, when tradition overstays its welcome.

April 18, 2019 Bat Flips Admin Baseball, Opinion, Pinch Hitting

Cultural Relativism is the theory that beliefs, customs, and morality exist in relation to the culture from which they originate and are not absolute – in other words, what is moral in one society or culture, may not be moral

New Season, New Pitch – Does adding a pitch make a pitcher better?

April 13, 2019 Russell Eassom Baseball

The image above is some usage, speed and spin info on Trevor Bauer‘s 2018 season. Last season he added a slider which he threw 20% of the time to right handed hitters. This change along with some refinement of his

Swept Away in Japan

March 27, 2019 Bat Flips Admin Baseball, London Series, MLB UK, Pinch Hitting

Hannah is one of the Baseball By Committee clan, who also contributes to the UK Oakland Athletics twitter account. According to her Twitter account she may enjoy some form of fermented beverage. As the dust settles and the jet lag

Best of British – Europe: Baseball Played Here

March 27, 2019 Bat Flips Admin Baseball, GB Baseball, London Series, MLB UK

Matt Smith is the chair of the British Baseball Hall Of Fame, Oakland A’s fan and founder of the excellent BaseballGB – the original British Baseball (And world baseball) website. For all the excitement at the thought of the upcoming

Best Of British – Spring has sprung!

March 26, 2019 Bat Flips Admin Baseball, London Series, MLB UK, Pinch Hitting

Steve Klein set up a blog called Bush League Ramble a couple of years ago and has been writing sporadically about baseball on there (and for a few other sites) ever since. His latest undertaking is Reading The Game, a

Gambling’s influence on Major League Baseball’s approach to minor league pay.

March 26, 2019 Russell Eassom Baseball

There have been multiple reports that Major League Baseball may be changing it’s approach to the pay of minor league players. The latest statement below seems to be a change from their historic stance of doing everything they legally can

Best Of British – Baseball: Shelf Awareness & The National Pastime

March 25, 2019 Bat Flips Admin Baseball, London Series, MLB UK, Pinch Hitting

Ash Day writes about the Cleveland Indians at England Tribe and you can find him at @AshDay29 To fall in love with the great game of baseball, your average British fan must overcome numerous barriers when they first encounter the

FIGHT! 2018

March 21, 2019 Rob Noverraz Baseball

As we ramp up to the beginning of the 2019 season, one thing Baseball players have demonstrated over and over is that they’re good at keeping grudges (Lest we forget that in 2017 Hunter Strickland plunked Bryce Harper in retaliation