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…
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Type “baseball†into the search box on Amazon (.com or .co.uk) and Watching Baseball Smarter: A Professional Fan’s Guide for Beginners, Semi-Experts and Deeply Serious Geeks will be one of the first books that appears on the resulting list
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Apparently there’s a football tournament going on? No England means no interest on my part, not that I’m bitter about us not qualifying. Anyway, there are thirteen early games this…