Bat Flips And Nerds

It's the most wonderful time of the year. Ben, John, Tom and Darius run the rule over all 30 teams in the annual predictions pod, assigning win totals through iffy reasoning and impassioned debate.

Check out our Twitter feed for the final predicted standings and of course feel free to weigh in with your thoughts and comments!

In the last of our 2021 Season Previews we head to the Midwest, to hear all about the AL Central from another stellar cast of club experts:

- Southside Sox's Janice Scurio on the White Sox
- MLB.com's Mandy bell on Cleveland baseball team
- Bless You Boys' Brandon Day on the Detroit Tigers
- MLB.com's Anne Rogers on the Kansas City Royals
- Acces Twins' Brandon Warne on the Minnesota Twins

In our penultimate season preview we're over in the AL West, and again joined by an amazing group of experts to keep us on the straight and narrow.

- Chandler Rome of the Houston Chronicle on The Astros
- Fabian Ardaya of The Athletic on The Angels
- Matt Kawahara of The San Francisco Chronicle on The A's
- Jordan Shusterman of Cespedes Family BBQ on The Mariners
- Levi Weaver of The Athletic on the Rangers.

In the fourth of our 2021 Season Previews, we take to the American League, starting down the East Coast. Our guests this time up:

- MASN Orioles PxP Melanie Newman on the Orioles
- The Athletic Boston's Jen McCaffrey on the Red Sox
- Jomboy Media's Keith McPherson on the Yankees
- The Athletic Toronto's Kaitlyn McGrath on the Blue Jays
- Locked on Rays' Kevin Weiss on the Rays

In the third instalment of our 2021 round-up we turn to baseball's least predictable division - the NL Central.

Once again we have an expert cast to guide the way, including:

- Russell Dorsey of the Chicago Sun Times on the Cubs
- C. Trent Rosecrans of The Athletic on the Reds
- Will Sammon of The Athletic on the Brewers
- Nubyjas Wilborn of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette on the Pirates
- Derrick Goold of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch on the Cardinals

In the second of our 2021 previews we turn to the NL West. Again, the guys are joined by clutch of experts to keep us on the straight and narrow, including:

- The Athletic's Zach Buchanan on the Diamondbacks
- MLB.com's Thomas Harding on the Rockies
- The Athletic's Molly Knight on the Dodgers
- MLB.com's AJ Cassavell on the Padres
- The San Francisco Chronicle's Susan Slusser on the Giants

The team are joined by a cast of experts to preview the 2021 NL East:

- AJC's Gabe Burns on the Braves
- MLB.com's Anthony DiComo on the Mets
- The Miami Herald's Jordan McPherson on the Marlins
- Actor and fantasy baseball expert Ellen Adair on the Phillies
- The Athletic's Maria Torres on the Nationals

Russell is joined by Jason Derr aka Bubba on Baseball, and Graeme Nelson of Shutout Cards to discuss their path into the wonderful world of baseball card collecting, the evolution of the card trading landscape and their new podcast 'Tea & Topps'.

In this joint-episode, John is joined by our great friend Matt Mutton of the British Baseball Podcast as they both chat to former New York Yankee, and Manager of the Knights of Britain franchise in the new European Super League of Professional Baseball.

Kevin reveals a few more details about the league, shares his genuine and infectious excitement with the project and talks a little about how his time with the Yankees can help him help the ambitious new venture to succeed. It's a really engrossing conversation.

You can follow the new league on both Twitter and Insta: @eslboficial
You can follow Matt via @britbaseballpod

Cody Decker, the self described 'real life Crash Davis' joins the show to chat about his love of the game of baseball, but hatred of the business as well as his massive love of the UK!

In a wide ranging chat we hit on:

- Being a Jewish ballplayer, and his time with the Israel baseball team
- Why the Colorado Rockies suck
- Jonny Gomes cameo in Cody's legendary career ending walk-off
- The best Doctor Who storylines
- The best Oasis songs

This one's a blast.