After a quiet offseason in St. Louis, there has been a lot of anticipation to see how this current roster does in the grapefruit league in 2020. But the top performers from the first spring training game are a mixture
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Tag: Spring Training
What I love about baseball
Spring is a wonderful time. It melts away the icy snows of winter and replaces it with green grass, the enveloping warmth of the sun and its fresh morning air. For hundreds of thousands of people around the world, spring
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Best Of British – Spring has sprung!
Steve Klein set up a blog called Bush League Ramble a couple of years ago and has been writing sporadically about baseball on there (and for a few other sites) ever since. His latest undertaking is Reading The Game, a
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“Don’t panic Mr Mainwaring!” – A Spring Training Guide
Spring Training has technically begun, you may have been seeing the phrase “Pitchers and Catchers” being floated around. This is when (wait for it) the pitchers and catchers report and begin their throwing and catching programs. They generally take a
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Andy Green and Fernando Tatis Jr. Meet Tom Pringle
I like to think I’m pretty level headed and don’t get star struck. Well, I suppose there was that one time I asked the Commissioner of Major League Baseball — Rob Manfred — a question and then proceeded to black
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Bat Flips and Nerds Does Pitchers and Catchers
My day job has many variables that can destroy plans in an instant, so forgive me if I milk this one a little bit but it’s rare the stars align and allow such a day to happen. I will finally
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