Seattle Mariners – Bat Flips and Nerds

An Ode To Mike Zunino

April 1, 2020 Bamos Appleby Baseball, Team Contributors

It’s hard to write about baseball when there’s no baseball happening. I’ve spent at least two hours today trying to think about how to make the fact the 2020 Seattle Mariners sent some players you’ve never heard of back down

Seattle Mariners 2020: the race to the bottom never felt so good

March 9, 2020 Bamos Appleby Baseball, Team Contributors

So close. So, SO damn close. A mere 3.1 games away from the kind of magnificent, glorious, ignominy I revel in as someone who pays a lot more attention to the Seattle Mariners than any sane UK resident should. The

Seattle Mariners 2020: Reasons for Optimism

March 6, 2020 Gavin Baseball, Opinion, Previews

What happened in 2019? Quite a lot really. It all started in Japan. The Mariners beat the Oakland Athletics in the two-game series, then came back stateside to win the series over the Boston Red Sox. They swept the Angels,

Reasons to watch baseball – AL West

February 10, 2020 Thomas Pringle Baseball, Opinion, Pinch Hitting

Life lessons from a Seattle Mariners fan

February 6, 2020 Bat Flips Admin Baseball, Guest writer

Life teaches you many lessons. A little one over the years is that the Seattle Mariners are a confusing mess of a Major League Baseball team. While I will limit that statement to the timespan of my own fandom, starting

What’s it like being a Mariners fan?

January 31, 2020 Bat Flips Admin Baseball, Pinch Hitting

Let’s have a look: Randy ‘The Big Unit’ Johnson, Alex Rodriguez, Ken Griffey Jr., Edgar freaking Martinez, King Felix, Ichiro Suzuki. That’s just a few of the great names in recent memory to have worn a Mariners jersey. But that’s

Hot takes and overreactions

April 3, 2019 Gavin Baseball, MLB UK, Opinion

It is far too early to anoint Phillies as World Series champions or label Chris Sale’s contract a bust, or even start thinking that the Baltimore Orioles might be a good team. Here are some interesting snippets from the opening

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

Baseball chinwag with Al Melchior

March 6, 2019 Gavin Baseball, Fantasy Baseball, MLB UK, Opinion

If baseball analysts had nicknames, Al Melchior would be the professor, so it was not surprising to discover that he is a former political science professor from Florida International University. Al has been writing about fantasy baseball since the turn

JUST ACCEPT IT, PECOTA HATES YOUR TEAM

February 10, 2019 Gavin Baseball, MLB UK, Opinion

Baseball Prospectus has just released their PECOTA projections for 2019, and you know what? They hate your team. The funny thing is, PECOTA is not opinion, yet MLB players, managers and fans take it personally. An acronym for Player Empirical