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Tag: Padres

Five Way Too Early Takeaways from MLB Opening Weekend

April 11, 2022 Bat Flips Admin Baseball

As the old baseball saying goes, three or four games is far too few to glean anything in baseball – small sample sizes and all that – still the Orioles are already 0-3 and dead last in the AL East

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An Application of Expected Stats

May 6, 2020 Bat Flips Admin Analytics, Baseball

Welcome back Christopher Gauthier Have you ever been at a game and a player smokes a ball right at someone? Like, had that ball been hit a little more to the left or the right of the fielder, it’s a

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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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Wade Miley should wear brown.

January 3, 2018 Thomas Pringle Baseball, Opinion

Wade Miley works quickly, Wade Miley wrestles snakes, Wade Miley eats innings. What do the Padres need? Someone who eats innings. The snake wrestling thing can’t hurt either. According to the official Padres website, their current rotation consists of: Clayton

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Post-Winter Meetings Transactions – Say Hello to the Angels!

December 16, 2017 Bat Flips Admin Baseball

Hey, so the Winter Meetings ended and then Ken Rosenthal lit the Hot Stove. Friday was a big one, here’s our take on the three top tier transactions. Carlos Santana to the Phillies (3 yrs, $60m) The Phillies have been

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Tuckin’ Hell – Part 16

August 20, 2017 Thomas Pringle Tuckin' Hell

When I first started writing about the Padres, I imagined I would be seeing some good young hitting, a tidy bullpen and finally some hit and miss starters. Overall, it would be a team that loses more games than it

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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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Tuckin’ Hell – Part 13

June 25, 2017 Thomas Pringle Baseball, Tuckin' Hell

Tom Pringle (@PedroiasFace) will be covering the Padres during the season. His updates won’t be game-recaps, more like weekly or monthly recaps. If you don’t get the twist on words in the title, you’re dead to him. What Happened? We’re

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Blake’s Fantasy Free Agent Finds – 8-14 June

June 7, 2017 Bat Flips Admin Fantasy Baseball, Opinion

Back again for a second week, it’s Blake Finney… Hopefully after a few of you were able to grab some of the players I mentioned last week (even if two of them are now Day-to-Day *facepalm*), After another week of

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Episode 28 – Schimpf Cocktail Military Megamix

May 4, 2017 Bat Flips Admin Baseball

John and Darius stick a fork in the Mets before casting an eye over the bona fides of two phenomena – Aaron Judge and the Minnesota Twins. Ryan Schimpf and Eric Thames prove that some guys are easier to nickname

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