A change is as good as a win? It’s not been a good week to be a Major League manager. The Mets, Mariners and Blue Jays have all been wielding…
Matt Smith
Matt Smith
Matt Smith is the editor and lead writer at BaseballGB. An Oakland A's fan, Matt has been following baseball since 1998 and started writing about the sport in 2006. He is the current Chair of the British Baseball Hall of Fame.
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Christopher Massey picked this up in his comment on the ‘Switch-hitting cricketers’ post and now MLB.com are running a story about it. The Yankees’ minor league pitcher Pat Venditte can hurl…
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The Rays have announced that they’ve come to terms with number one draft pick Tim Beckham. The shortstop will receive a signing bonus worth $6.15m . Not many 18 year olds…
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I noted recently that there are a lot of books on my ‘must get around to buying a copy’ list. The trouble is, new titles keep coming out each month…
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I posted last week about the proposed MCC exhibition tracing the relationship between baseball and cricket. One of the ways cricket has borrowed from baseball over the years is in…
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It’s Interleague play week in MLB, which doesn’t seem to have much bearing on the number of early games being played. We start the week off slowly today and tomorrow,…
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‘The Natural’ In some ways it was just one more home run, but for Ken Griffey Jr, his family, millions of baseball fans and a guy named Joe, it was…
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Prior to today’s match-ups, the Texas Rangers have scored more runs per game than any team in the Majors (5.57), but they’ve also conceded more runs per game than anyone else…
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MLB may sometimes seem a far away place for European ballplayers, but that’s not to say that the North American franchises are overlooking this continent. The Milwaukee Brewers are holding…
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My Fantasy BaseballUK showing so far can only be described as pathetic. At time of writing, I’m 1,524th out of 3,805 in the main competition and 40th out of 87…