Mookie Betts – Bat Flips and Nerds

No Mookie, no Price, but at least Guns and Roses are playing

February 7, 2020 Bat Flips Admin Baseball, Guest writer

Nobody wants to see me recreate the famous Spider Jerusalem column. Still, as I see it, Mookie Betts and David Price have escaped, fled to Los Angeles in a trade that doesn’t seem any more likely to yield a quality

Episode 147 – Emergency pod: You Betts-er believe

February 6, 2020 Gavin Podcast

Tom, John, Russell and special guest Joey Bailey from Four Bases combine to run through the blockbuster Mookie Betts trade that took place last night. 20 minutes in, Tom’s computer shits itself and he’s gone from the pod. So stick

Did six teams win in the Mookie Betts deal?

February 5, 2020 Gavin Baseball, Opinion

With the dust still settling from the blockbuster trade that sent Mookie Betts from one coast of the USA to the other, it seems like the deal was a win-win-win-win-win-win for six teams. Is that even possible? The big winners

State of the Red Sox

January 31, 2020 Bat Flips Admin Baseball, Pinch Hitting

It’s tough to know exactly what the Boston Red Sox are playing at, and what sort of discipline this team will face for the signal-stealing that led them to part ways with Alex Cora. We do see a lot of

Reasons to watch baseball – AL East

January 18, 2020 Thomas Pringle Baseball, Opinion, Previews

Who have been the second-half comeback kids?

September 18, 2019 Gavin Baseball, MLB UK, Opinion

After the dog days of the offseason, and then the seemingly never-ending schedule of meaningless Spring Training games, the regular season arrived and demanded the complete attention of the baseball world. By the end of April, the following was true…

London Series preview: Right field

June 25, 2019 Gavin Baseball, London Series, MLB UK, Opinion, Previews

With the New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox due to meet shortly for the first-ever MLB games to be played in the UK, the Bat Flips and Nerds player previews reach the right field studs. RIGHT FIELD Mookie Betts

Three minutes on the Los Angeles Angels

February 9, 2019 Gavin MLB UK, 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

Size doesn’t matter: The vertically-challenged team

January 25, 2019 Gavin Baseball, MLB UK, 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

London Series Ticket Pricing Announced – Opinion

November 28, 2018 Thomas Pringle Baseball, London Series, MLB UK, Opinion

Over the last 12 hours, Ticketmaster have released the pricing breakdown for the upcoming London Series on the 29th and 30th June 2019. To save you a click, here is the graphic you will be presented with. You’re probably staring