Bat Flips And Nerds

Russell is back with Ben this time to talk a bit about the world of British baseball, the Mets and the Ohtani 50/50 chase. But they are mainly there to play a blind resume game, giving each other stat line on over and under performing players and seeing if they can guess who they are.

After whatever last weeks episode was Russell is joined by Darius tonerd out and discuss how do we farely evaluate players with diffferent skill sets. Using the Ohtani v Londor MVP Race and the Skubal v Clase CY Young discussion.
They then also discuss some of the bat tracking metrics which have released by MLB this year on Baseball Savant.

The team is back. John is johned by Rob, Ben and Russ to discuss the WBC, Votto's retirement, Jansen's playing for both sides and the wonder that is Judge.

Followed byprobably the most legendary 2 Good 2 Bad ever.

Rob, Darius and Ben convene to discuss the biggest moves from the recent trade deadline. From the sellers (hello Rays, Marlins, Blue Jays) to the buyers (yo Mariners, Orioles, Yankees) and a few extra in between.

Russell chats with with Comdien, Writer and Mets podcaster / live streamer John Saponaro. The talk about John's baseball life and what it is to be a Mets fan, what the final years under the Wilpons was like and how things feel different with Cohen. They then get onto discussing Lindor and Nimmo and their respective All-Star Snubbs.

Professors Eassom, Carter and Noverraz have come together to grade the performances of the teams against expectations. With grades from A+ to U and even a random symbol in there, it's a pod not to miss.

The crew is back and discussing the past on the future of baseball. They start with discussions on the passing of Willie Mays and the amazing game at Rickwood Field before getting onto what more MLB can do in this area. They then discuss GB's Michael Petersen's debut and how much that means to fans and player in the UK before moving onto the tight wild card picture and how there might not be many trades out ther just yet.

John, Ben, Darius and Rob offer very final thoughts on the 2024 London Series and celebrate another banner week for British baseball with Michael Petersen's call up by the Dodgers.

They also take time to celebrate the phenomenon that is the Gay Grimace Mets and some underrated bum called Aaron Judge.

We'll have a new pod later this week wrapping up another brilliant moment in British baseball history.

In the meantime, we've brought together all the conversations we had this weekend into a single pod. These were peppered across the weekend, but we wanted as many of you as possible to hear them all - plus a couple of others we didn't include - as they offer brilliant reflections on the meaning of these series from across the baseball world. As a European fan, it's a heartening listen - and we proved them all right!

You'll hear from Sean Manaea, Whit Merrifield, Dave Dombrowski, Tony Clark, Felix White, Doug Glanville and Shane Victorino.

And from us all again very soon.

Tom, John and Darius wrap up an epic London Series 2024 - the best one yet!

What a weekend, we hope you enjoyed it as much as we did.