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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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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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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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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 …

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: 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…

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

Gav with the deets

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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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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…

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: 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…

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

Next up:: GB v Israel

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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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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)

#LetsGoGB

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

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

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

#LetsgoGB

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

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

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…

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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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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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

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…

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

#EuroBaseball #EuroBaseball2025 #BaseballEurope #LetsGoGB

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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🚨 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! 📺 🎧

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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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

Enjoying the methodology here!!

Hot takes wanted! 🔥

We’re hopping on the podcast mics tonight to debate ‘who are the best 10 players in baseball’?

And we want to hear your lists - or at least an outside shout at who you think we should consider. Go! 💬

Outstanding piece from @justintinsley.bsky.social

And huge kudos to the awesome Xavier Scruggs for saying everything that needs to be said, despite his work with the league 👏

How Baseball Films reflected American Religious Life Films reflect life and they do so in often unexpected ways, or not in the way that they seem to on the surface, and sometimes in the ways that the makers of the films didn’t consciously intend them…

Fascinating article on the website today from Jonathan Plummer, author of a new book "Movies and the Church of Baseball: Religion in the Cinema of the National Pastime"

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My Baseball Origin Story: Josh Wright A niche within a niche: a British Twins fan. In short, it was me thinking up date ideas with my now-wife. I am an all-round British sports nerd, but American sports had stayed on the fringes for me…

A Brit who is also a Twins fan. Talk about niche.

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