At Bat Flips & Nerds, our mission is to help fans back home get to know the players, so that baseball supporters in the UK feel more connected to the Great Britain national team. In the absence…

At Bat Flips & Nerds, our mission is to help fans back home get to know the players, so that baseball supporters in the UK feel more connected to the Great Britain national team. In the absence…

At Bat Flips & Nerds, our mission is to help fans back home get to know the players, so that baseball supporters in the UK feel more connected to the Great Britain national team. In the absence…

All 16 teams have finished their round-robin games, so let’s take a look at the current picture. Just a reminder, Groups A & B are the main seeded teams, and all eight teams are still in …

Blue skies and a stiff breeze greeted the two teams on the secondary field at the Neptunus complex in Rotterdam on Monday. Great Britain had ambitions for a top-two spot to all-but-guarantee progre…

Picture a snowball triggering an avalanche, and you can see how Great Britain turned a cagey start into a Mercy Rule win. Brad Marcelino scored his first victory as head coach with an emphatic 16-1…

Great Britain’s campaign at the 2025 Euros got underway in Rotterdam on Saturday, and let’s just say it wasn’t exactly the dream start. The hosts, the Netherlands, ran out 9–3 winners in front of t…

One of the many legacies of MLB London Series games is that non-baseball fans became interested in the sport. In the case of my brother, it became more than a passing interest; he got hooked. His a…

Who are currently the best hitters in the league? Some names might surprise you. I certainly was fooled by the best third baseman, so fooled that I had to re-run the report to ensure there wasn&#82…

Almost daily, baseball finds a way to fascinate me. Today it was discovering that Mookie Betts leads all Dodgers not named Ohtani in runs scored, but he is a below-average player (according to OPS+…

Don’t look now, but the Texas Rangers are the hottest team in baseball. It has been a season of unpredictability for Bruce Bochy’s team. They led the division for over 30 days earlier in the year b…

Fresh off the back of Great Britain’s success in the Under 23’s and the Women’s European Championships, the men’s senior team has the opportunity to make it a hat-trick of Champions of Europe for t…

Selected by the Seattle Mariners in the first round of the 2021 draft – the year that the Pirates took Henry Davis with the first overall pick – Harry Ford is/was knocking on the door o…

Since the realigned five-team AL East was established in 1994, the Toronto Blue Jays have finished top of the division just once, in 2015. It has been a fantastic campaign for manager John Schneide…

Such was the optimism going into the season that MLB’s Braves’ correspondent, Mark Bowman opined “Atlanta is more than capable of winning it all for the second time in five seasons.” It was hard to…

With a win against the Chicago White Sox on Sunday, 27 July, the Chicago Cubs were tied for first in the NL Central. They had enjoyed 111 days atop the division, with their lead maxing out at 6.5 g…

We have MLB live on the BBC again today (Sunday 10 August) with an intriguing lineup between two teams, both with half an eye on the postseason but currently on opposite ends of the form chart. Mil…

In just a few weeks, 16 of Europe’s finest baseballing nations will compete for the European Championship. In 2023, Europe’s most prestigious baseball event produced a cascade of excite…

There are, as you can guess by our name, plenty of baseball nerds in the UK. However, there are also many non-nerds for whom the first week of August represents the “proper” start of the baseball s…

Designed in collaboration with the British Baseball Federation and British Softball Federation, and with input from stakeholders across the UK, the Coaching Playbook sets the standard that all Brit…

Films reflect life and they do so in often unexpected ways, or not in the way that they seem to on the surface, and sometimes in the ways that the makers of the films didn’t consciously intend them…

A niche within a niche: a British Twins fan. In short, it was me thinking up date ideas with my now-wife. I am an all-round British sports nerd, but American sports had stayed on the fringes for me…

More and more young Kiwis are looking beyond rugby and cricket for something a bit different – and baseball’s stepping up to the plate. With growing interest and support, Baseball New Zealand is la…

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Baseball is back, and life is good unless you are an Atlanta Braves fan. The opening week of the 2025 season provided some incredible action.  Here is your five-minute roundup of the week’s ba…

Allow me to set the scene: It’s Opening Day and the conditions are perfect inside Cincinnati’s beautiful Great American Ballpark. The sights, sounds and smells of our beloved game have returned for…

Having missed the playoffs just once in the last six seasons, the Tampa Bay Rays have discovered how to achieve a level of success that belies their salary liabilities. Adam Cockerill offers five p…

It was a shocker to learn that Drew Spencer, Great Britain’s inspirational head coach, had resigned his position to concentrate on his New York Yankees career. Drew stepped into huge shoes tr…

Minnesota Twins’ dismal start to the season got a little bit worse on Sunday when star pitcher Bailey Ober was pulled after just 2 ⅔ innings with the St Louis Cardinals already having eight r…

There’s something uniquely vibrant about sharing a train ride packed full of excited sports fans, all heading toward the anticipation of a baseball game. This simple journey, an everyday comm…

One of my mates, let’s call him Martin, is on holiday in California and intends to take in a Los Angeles Dodgers game. Previously, he was an exceptional cricketer and is a knowledgeable sports fan,…

I spend far too much time looking at baseball statistics on the internet. In doing so I meet so many fascinating statistics that are outside the realms of baseball reference. One though has stuck w…

Opening Day was finally upon us, and it was an Opening Day for the ages. If you forgot how much you loved baseball over the seemingly never-ending offseason, then Thursday reminded you that it is t…

Last but not least, Alex Hoad joins us to preview the season for his San Diego Padres. After a nightmare finish to 2024, will the the Padres return to the Crone Zone in 2025? What happened in 2024?…

One of the problems with bold predictions is that if they are correct, the assumption is that they were not bold enough. When we review this article in the offseason, we won’t be able to reca…

The difference between a regular baseball fan and a legit baseball nerd like you is that the regular fan didn’t realise the Arizona Diamondbacks scored the most runs in MLB last season. Will the Ph…