Bat Flips And Nerds

Rob is joined by Jacob Kornhauser, author of 'The Cup of Coffee Club', to talk about those players who only ever got one game in the majors.

Current Minnesota Twin, and former big leaguer with the Royals and Braves joined John to chat everything from the upheaval to Spring Training caused by COVID19, the fight for better pay for Minor Leaguers and his lousy MLB The Show skills.

Russell chats to GB coach Liam Carroll about their ill fated trip to Arizona for the WBC that never was...

Blue Jays infielder Andy Burns chats to John about his time with the club, his career as a 'rock star' with the Lotte Giants of the KBO and spending 2019 up close and personal in Buffalo with the Blue Jays legends of the future.

Darren Fletcher, the voice of football on BT Sport and BBC Radio 5Live, joined Russell to chat about calling the MLB London Series for the UK broadcast, his own baseball fandom, and becoming a viral sensation Stateside.

Rachel gets Rob, Russell and Darius to conjure up baseball memories that they associate with each of the five senses, from a tangential encounter with Jake Odorizzi to the heckling of Mike Costanzo.

Ben is back!

Tom, John and Darius are joined by the boy wonder from down under, Ben Carter to go through their now locked in method of predicting the upcoming season. They take the total number of wins available and try to pick out how many games each team will win.

Hightlights:
John loves the Reds, hates everyone and everything else.
Ben loves the Mets, hates the Rockies.
Tom loves the Cardinals, hates Eric Hosmer.
Darius loves relievers (And Buster a little less than last year) and doesn't like the Giants that much.

ESPN's own baseball savant Jeff Passan joins John to talk everything from the current state of baseball, to his evolution from reporter to newsbreaker. Includes a trade mark PASSAN BOMB at the end of the pod - but perhaps not one you'll be expecting.

Get after it...

Mark Simon of Sports Info Solutions joins Russell to discuss the latest edition of the Fielding Bible, the updated Defensive Runs Saved metric, and SABR, plus how Matt Chapman is even better than you thought, and how you can get Mark to write you a poem.

Pitcher Rick Teasley returns to the podcast to share stories of his 2019 in the Atlantic League as MLB used them as a testing ground for the new automated strike zone, and his reasons for moving over to Cleburne of the American Association - suffice to say it isn't quite ready for the bigs.

We also talk about his time down in Mexico, and the small matter of throwing a perfect game for Somerset. It was quite a year!