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Bat Flips and Nerds @batflipsandnerds.bsky.social · Sep 25

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EuroBaseball 2025: Meet the Brits Aiming for Glory – Catchers & Designated Hitters

At Bat Flips & Nerds, our mission is to help fans back home get to know the players, so that baseball supporters in the UK feel more connected to the Great Britain national team. In the absence…

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Bat Flips and Nerds @batflipsandnerds.bsky.social · Sep 25

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EuroBaseball 2025: Meet the Brits Aiming for Glory – Infielders

At Bat Flips & Nerds, our mission is to help fans back home get to know the players, so that baseball supporters in the UK feel more connected to the Great Britain national team. In the absence…

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Bat Flips and Nerds @batflipsandnerds.bsky.social · Sep 25

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EuroBaseball 2025: Meet the Brits Aiming for Glory – Outfielders

At Bat Flips & Nerds, our mission is to help fans back home get to know the players, so that baseball supporters in the UK feel more connected to the Great Britain national team. In the absence…

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Bat Flips and Nerds @batflipsandnerds.bsky.social · Sep 23

Pool games of #EuroBaseball2025 are done. The real excitement starts NOW.

Lots of info in this article. Stats on GB players, forthcoming fixtures, and even Adam Jones and the Ministry of Baseball get mentioned.

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EuroBaseball 2025: The Definitive Pool Stage Guide & What’s Next in the Championship

All 16 teams have finished their round-robin games, so let’s take a look at the current picture. Just a reminder, Groups A & B are the main seeded teams, and all eight teams are still in …

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Bat Flips and Nerds @batflipsandnerds.bsky.social · Sep 23

EuroBaseball 2025: GB into the Quarter Finals with a win over France.

Gav with the deets

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EuroBaseball 2025: Tant Pis! GB’s Resilience Leaves France Winless

Blue skies and a stiff breeze greeted the two teams on the secondary field at the Neptunus complex in Rotterdam on Monday. Great Britain had ambitions for a top-two spot to all-but-guarantee progre…

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Bat Flips and Nerds @batflipsandnerds.bsky.social · Sep 22

What is in the water in Ohio?
Wait, don't answer that, but Cleveland and Cincinnati are making this last week exciting.

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Bat Flips and Nerds @batflipsandnerds.bsky.social · Sep 21

EuroBaseball 2025: Brad Marcelino celebrates his first win as GB's Head Coach.

GB 16-1 Israel (mercy rule - 8th inning)

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EuroBaseball 2025: Great Britain secure First Win for Brad Marcelino with Destruction of Israel

Picture a snowball triggering an avalanche, and you can see how Great Britain turned a cagey start into a Mercy Rule win. Brad Marcelino scored his first victory as head coach with an emphatic 16-1…

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Bat Flips and Nerds @batflipsandnerds.bsky.social · Sep 21

Great day for Great Britain baseball, even though the result didn't go our way.

Next up:: GB v Israel

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EuroBaseball 2025: Dutch Experience Trumps Great Britain’s Youth

Great Britain’s campaign at the 2025 Euros got underway in Rotterdam on Saturday, and let’s just say it wasn’t exactly the dream start. The hosts, the Netherlands, ran out 9–3 winners in front of t…

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Bat Flips and Nerds @batflipsandnerds.bsky.social · Sep 17

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Gav’s Dilemma: Is it Safe to Watch the Chicago Cubs?

One of the many legacies of MLB London Series games is that non-baseball fans became interested in the sport. In the case of my brother, it became more than a passing interest; he got hooked. His a…

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Bat Flips and Nerds @batflipsandnerds.bsky.social · Sep 16

Five days until EuroBaseball 2025

Pool A & B are based in Rotterdam (Netherlands)

Pool C has had a last-minute relocation to Novara (Italy)

Pool D will be held in Antwerp (Belgium)

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Bat Flips and Nerds @batflipsandnerds.bsky.social · Sep 8

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DH: Shohei Ohtani
C: Shea Langeliers
1B: Nick Kurtz

Can you guess 2B, 3B, SS, OF?

MLB’s Hottest Hitters: Aaron Judge and Cal Raleigh are Nowhere to be Seen

Who are currently the best hitters in the league? Some names might surprise you. I certainly was fooled by the best third baseman, so fooled that I had to re-run the report to ensure there wasn&#82…

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Bat Flips and Nerds @batflipsandnerds.bsky.social · Sep 5

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Mookie’s Run Scoring and the Stathead Rabbit Hole

Almost daily, baseball finds a way to fascinate me. Today it was discovering that Mookie Betts leads all Dodgers not named Ohtani in runs scored, but he is a below-average player (according to OPS+…

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Bat Flips and Nerds @batflipsandnerds.bsky.social · Sep 2

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Astros and Mariners beware! Here come the Rangers

Don’t look now, but the Texas Rangers are the hottest team in baseball. It has been a season of unpredictability for Bruce Bochy’s team. They led the division for over 30 days earlier in the year b…

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Bat Flips and Nerds @batflipsandnerds.bsky.social · Sep 2

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👏Cracking offer from Home Run Travel to get more fans out to support Great Britain in the European Championships

#LetsgoGB

Rotterdam awaits: Watch live as Great Britain seeks a hat-trick of European Championships

Fresh off the back of Great Britain’s success in the Under 23’s and the Women’s European Championships, the men’s senior team has the opportunity to make it a hat-trick of Champions of Europe for t…

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Bat Flips and Nerds @batflipsandnerds.bsky.social · Sep 1

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Congratulations Prince Harry Ford ⚾️ - Are we all Seattle Mariners fans now?

Welcome to The Show: Seattle Mariners promote GB’s Harry Ford

Selected by the Seattle Mariners in the first round of the 2021 draft – the year that the Pirates took Henry Davis with the first overall pick – Harry Ford is/was knocking on the door o…

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Bat Flips and Nerds @batflipsandnerds.bsky.social · Sep 1

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Will the Blue Jays blow their lead?
What do YOU reckon?

Are the Blue Jays Losing their Grip on the Division Title?

Since the realigned five-team AL East was established in 1994, the Toronto Blue Jays have finished top of the division just once, in 2015. It has been a fantastic campaign for manager John Schneide…

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Bat Flips and Nerds @batflipsandnerds.bsky.social · Aug 23

This Sunday, more MLB on BBC: New York Mets v Atlanta Braves

Whether you're a baseball nerd or baseball newbie, get your questions to the awesome commentary team of Melanie, Xavier, and Felix

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MLB on BBC: Can the Braves stymie the Mets’ playoff aspirations?

Such was the optimism going into the season that MLB’s Braves’ correspondent, Mark Bowman opined “Atlanta is more than capable of winning it all for the second time in five seasons.” It was hard to…

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Bat Flips and Nerds @batflipsandnerds.bsky.social · Aug 18

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Milwaukee Brewers v Chicago Cubs feels like a Ten-Pointer

With a win against the Chicago White Sox on Sunday, 27 July, the Chicago Cubs were tied for first in the NL Central. They had enjoyed 111 days atop the division, with their lead maxing out at 6.5 g…

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Bat Flips and Nerds @batflipsandnerds.bsky.social · Aug 13

Saturday 16 August

🍺 @passyunkavenue (Waterloo)
📺CHC v PIT

Great food, cracking beers, mediocre baseball on the big screens.

Fans of all teams welcome. Come say hello to Sean @ThatLondonCub and Cubs superfan @BleacherJeff

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Bat Flips and Nerds @batflipsandnerds.bsky.social · Aug 10

Prime Time Baseball on the BBC... TONIGHT!

Whether you're baseball nerds or baseball newbies, get your questions and comments into Melanie Newman, Xavier Scruggs and Felix White

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Milwaukee Brewers v New York Mets: MLB is on the BBC again

We have MLB live on the BBC again today (Sunday 10 August) with an intriguing lineup between two teams, both with half an eye on the postseason but currently on opposite ends of the form chart. Mil…

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Bat Flips and Nerds @batflipsandnerds.bsky.social · Aug 7

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Only 6 weeks until @GB_Baseball tackle the "Group of Death" in the Euros.

#EuroBaseball #EuroBaseball2025 #BaseballEurope #LetsGoGB

EUROBASEBALL 2025: Great Britain and the cliché Group of Death

In just a few weeks, 16 of Europe’s finest baseballing nations will compete for the European Championship. In 2023, Europe’s most prestigious baseball event produced a cascade of excite…

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Bat Flips and Nerds @batflipsandnerds.bsky.social · Aug 4

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Forget the last few months, the Baseball Season proper starts in August

There are, as you can guess by our name, plenty of baseball nerds in the UK. However, there are also many non-nerds for whom the first week of August represents the “proper” start of the baseball s…

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Bat Flips and Nerds @batflipsandnerds.bsky.social · Jul 4

🚨 NEW POD! 🚨

We’re talking London events, All-Star snubs, that Skubal guy and which teams should be buying or selling! 🤝

Available now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or YouTube! 📺 🎧

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Bat Flips and Nerds @batflipsandnerds.bsky.social · Jun 26

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Coaching Playbook – UK’s Dynamic Coach Education and Development Programme

Designed in collaboration with the British Baseball Federation and British Softball Federation, and with input from stakeholders across the UK, the Coaching Playbook sets the standard that all Brit…

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Archibald “Moonlight” Graham @archwrightgraham.bsky.social · May 9

Ok, I’ll bite:

1. Judge
2. Soto
3. Freeman
4. Ohtani
5. Lars Nootbar (just by name alone he could be in the top 3)
6. Rickey Henderson (I refuse to believe he’s dead and he may still be playing under an assumed name)
7. James Wood
8. Tarik Skubal
9. Vladdy Jr.
10. Cedric Mullins

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