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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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Texas Rangers 2020: Reasons for optimism

February 22, 2020 Bat Flips Admin Baseball, Team Contributors

What happened in 2019? 2019 was a frustrating season of inconsistency. Finishing third in the AL West seemed fair, despite a promising start to the 2019 campaign. The lack of a consistent third baseman following the retirement of club and

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If Baseball was Football – Part 1: American League

June 3, 2018 Bat Flips Admin Baseball, London Series

A big welcome back to the Baseball Brit, Joey Mellows… Major League Baseball is coming to the UK! The London Series has been officially scheduled for June 29th & 30th in 2019 and this has sent die hard MLB UK

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Post-Winter Meetings Transactions Round 2 – You Set the Fire in Me, CC

December 17, 2017 Darius Austin Baseball

Matt Kemp to the Dodgers for Adrian Gonzalez, Brandon McCarthy, Scott Kazmir, Charlie Culberson, and $4.5M There are a lot of big names and big contracts involved in this deal, and yet it is an upsettingly underwhelming blockbuster trade. In

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NPB to MLB – ‘Everyone But Ohtani’

December 13, 2017 Bat Flips Admin Baseball

With a run down on all the top pitching talent moving to the MLB from Japan, welcome back Joey Mellows… Miles Mikolas, Chris Martin and Kazuhisa Makita are three talented pitchers who have all recently plied their trade in Japan’s

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Bird in the Bronx

July 1, 2017 Bat Flips Admin Baseball, Pinch Hitting

Kurt Wilks (@KurtWilks) has recently returned from the Bronx, where he (A Cardinals fan) watched the New York Yankees tackle Yu Darvish and the Texas Rangers. Read all about him breaking his baseball virginity. As a St Louis Cardinals fan

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A Brief History Of Mound Charges – Part 2

June 30, 2017 Rob Noverraz Baseball

Picking up where we left off in part one, here are three more mound charging episodes that we all secretly enjoyed whilst pretending outwardly that it has no place in the game.   This time we have two Venturas for

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Episode 33 – Gryffindor Gosewisch & Gammon Samardzija

June 11, 2017 Bat Flips Admin Baseball

Ben and Tom join John in wondering how to pronounce Scooter Gennett’s surname, whether anyone saw his four homers under that came uni, and to dig deep on the roasting hot Houston Astros. As ever, fan questions lead things to

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Why that player on your team could be the MVP: AL West

March 19, 2017 Ben Carter Baseball, Opinion

Hope springs eternal. So said Alexander Pope in An Essay on Man apparently, all the way back in 1733, presumably oblivious to the fact his off-the-cuff phrase would become a widely and popularly used idiom. This three-word saying has a

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Five GB Baseball Players to Watch in 2017

February 8, 2017 John McGee Baseball, Opinion

Darius Austin is back to introduce the hottest GB talent in the MiLB – a few to keep your eye on this season.

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