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Tag: Rockies

An Application of Expected Stats

May 6, 2020 Bat Flips Admin Analytics, Baseball, Beginner's Guide

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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Stadium Review – Colorado Rockies – Coors Field, Denver

May 4, 2020 Sarah Briggs Baseball, Beginner's Guide, Learning to Baseball, Opinion, Pinch Hitting, Reviews, Team Contributors

I am on a quest to visit all 30 Major League ballparks – so far, I’ve done 13 in eight years, which is not bad going. The visits to Coors Field were part of a road trip around Colorado and

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Colorado Rockies 2020: Reasons for optimism

February 22, 2020 Bat Flips Admin Baseball, Previews, Team Contributors

What happened in 2019? 2019 was a season that Rockies fans would probably rather forget. Hopes were high that they could follow back-to-back playoff appearances in ’17 and ’18 (a franchise first) with another postseason run. Those hopes took their

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Your new favourite Colorado Rockies player

February 16, 2020 Bat Flips Admin Baseball, Guest writer

One of the beautiful things about baseball is how well it lends itself to a certain level of romanticism. There’s an otherworldly feel to a baseball story. It’s easy to look at the story as presented, and think “well, this

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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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MLB UK Community – Manchester Fan Meet Up, 13 August

July 25, 2017 Bat Flips Admin Baseball, GB Baseball

In case you’ve missed it on Twitter and Facebook, we’re following hot on the heels of the London meet up by holding our own get together for Northern souls in magical Manchester. Tickets are free and available on Skiddle right

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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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Episode 29 – With a little bit of luck, we won’t offend everyone

May 12, 2017 Bat Flips Admin Podcast

John continues his hosting duties, where he offends the returning Tom, the military, anyone who has died during active service, the Rockies, Julio Urias and all the UK Garage fans that are still standing. The oracle that is Darius continues

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Season Preview – Colorado Rockies

March 23, 2017 Bat Flips Admin Baseball

The preview tables are turned on Batflips & Nerds regular Ben Carter (@ukbaseballblog), as Darius Austin (@DariusA64) grills him about the Colorado Rockies, a process that reveals lots of love for Nolan Arenado and not so much for Gerardo Parra.

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Red Sox – Yankees in London? No Thanks.

January 3, 2017 John McGee Baseball, Opinion

Reports in the States suggest that MLB will go for a big bang with their first London series. Drab killjoy John McGee wants to rain on that parade.

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