Bat Flips And Nerds

Tom, John and Darius preview day one and chat about the atmosphere in the stadium and at the workout day. They are joined for a chat by Mets Saturday starter Sean Manaea.

It's London Series week!

To kick off our coverage we have a brilliant preview with the awesome Dave Shaw of UK Phillies and Jo Lenton of Mets in the UK.

We get into their fierce on-field rivalry and off-field camaraderie, their big plans for the week and a look at baseball's most in-form team and, errr... the Mets!

Enjoy!

And see you at the London Stadium.

Ben, Rob and Gav chat through a few of the biggest talking points in the world of baseball: the Mets / Jorge Lopez meltdown, the retirement of umpiring dynamo Angel Hernandez and an unfortunate season-ending injury to Ronald Acuna Jr.

They then turn their attention to the upcoming London Series, chatting through the activations and events taking place around the baseball over the weekend and doling out some advice based on past experience.

Legendary baseball laureate Joe Posnanski joins us to celebrate the UK launch of his mighty tome 'Why We Love Baseball', chewing on everything from the relationship between baseball and history, the great Buck O'Neill and even Nick Hornby's Fever Pitch!

'Why We Love Baseball' is out in the UK now, with a new section and intro specially produced for British readers.

After another week of MLB, Russell, Darius and Rob spend nearly an hour not talking about any of it.
They discuss the epidemic of elbow injuries that seems to be upon is and what if anything can be done to fix it. They then switch the focus to the A's situtation and the nonsense of them moving to Sacramento.

Finally they do discuss so of the top teams and some of the weeks baseball. And finish it off with anoth round of 2 good, 2 bad.

Darius leads Ben and Russell through a discussion on the first week of the MLB season.  The sweepers and sweepies get discussed as well as the glorious on pace records we have and the McNeil/Hoskins beef.  Topped off with the usual 2 Good 2 Bad.

Just as the groundhog saw his shadow, so too will our four brave prognosticators declare early the results of the upcoming 2024 MLB season.

John, Tom, Darius and Ben join forces for their annual predictions podcast, debating the win totals for all 30 MLB teams before arriving at a very, very scientific result.

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The team is back to talk about the monster Wheeler extension, the possibly sub par deals for Bellinger and Chapman and if that means Boras has lost his touch. They chat about the latest sproings of Spring Training as well as highlight some intersting moments for them and how the GB eligble guys have been fairing.

Darius, Rob and Ben chat through the early Spring Training storylines, from 'Best Shape Of His Life'-watch (hello Giancarlo) to the variety of subtle and not-so-subtle comments coming out of media availabilities.

They also chat remaining free agents, Rob Manfred's very early handing of his notice and rule changes coming into 2024!