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Bat Flips And Nerds

Bat Flips & Nerds

A British take on Baseball. John, Tom, Ben, Darius, Rachel, Russell and Rob guide you through the goings on in MLB, Team GB and baseball around the world.

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  • 427 episodes
  • Updated April 11
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  • Apr 13, 2023 · 1 hr 15 min

    Episode 312 - Baseball Strikes Back

    The team is back to discuss the first week and a bit of the new MLB season. How good are the Rays? Have the new rules impacted our viewing expeierence? We also have the reutrn of 2 Good 2 Bad, the totally unique idea for this show. All while being...

  • Mar 30, 2023 · 2 hr 18 min

    Episode 311 - The 'B' Team Predictions

    We 'The B-Team' know you weren't satisfied with those four rambling on about their preseason predictions. So, we have given you over 2 hours of Rob, Gav and Russell prognosticating on MLB in 2023. They've brought back their joker system where one...

  • Mar 24, 2023 · 1 hr 19 min

    Episode 310 - The 2023 BFN Predictions Pod

    John, Tom, Darius and Ben get together for their annual predictions show, assigning win totals to all 30 MLB teams and checking the maths to make sure it all adds up. How low are they willing to go on the A's? Is it another 95-win prediction for the...

  • Mar 18, 2023 · 1 hr 14 min

    Episode 309 - A Great Britain and WBC Review

    John and Russell got through the week that GB Baseball had at the World Baseball Classic. They talk about each of the games and their highlights of them.

  • Mar 14, 2023 · 22 min

    WBC Mini Pod - GB WINS!!

    High off the emotion of GB's first ever win in the World Baseball Classic, Gav and Russell struggle to put together coherent thoughts on the game and what it felt like to be there. Also there is post match chats from Drew Spencer, Chavez Young and...

  • Mar 13, 2023 · 15 min

    WBC Mini Pods - Thoughts on Game vs Canada

    Russell and Gav, talk throught the amazing game two from GB v Canada. They talk through the highs and lows of the game and the experience from Chase Field. The big moments of the stolen base replay call, the yips that 10 pitchers had and other stuff.

  • Mar 12, 2023 · 15 min

    WBC Mini Pods - Thoughts on Game vs USA

    Russell and Gav, talk throught the amazing game one from GB v USA. They talk through the highs and lows of the game and the experience from Chase Field. 'Amazing Trayce', Daniel 'Hermetically Sealed Elbow' Cooper and MIcheal 'British Gas' Petersen are...

  • Mar 10, 2023 · 16 min

    WBC Mini Pods - Thought on the warm-up games

    Here is another WBC minipod, with this one dicussing the two warm up match GB have played. Russell gives his thoughts on the two games. He also had a chat with GB Manager Drew Spencer before game 2 on his thouights from game 1 and what they wanted...

  • Mar 8, 2023 · 15 min

    WBC Mini Pods - Thoughts from the GB practice field

    Russell made is way down to the GB traiing camp in Phoenix and had some quick chats with the GB squad as they prepare for the World Baseball Classic. He chats with Justin Wylie, Anfernee Seymour, Harry Ford, Alex Crosby, Daniel Cooper and Jake Esch.

  • Mar 4, 2023 · 1 hr 30 min

    Episode 308 - The Boys Expand MLB - Part 2

    We know it's coming at some point in the future so, this week the BFAN team try and get ahead of it by creating their own MLB expansion team. Part 2 of the series takes our two expansion teams one chosen by us, one chosen you and perform the draft....

  • Mar 2, 2023 · 28 min

    Episode 307 - GB's Justin Wylie with Beyond Baseball

    Russell sits down with the Jared and Caleb from Baseball Beyond to chat with GB rostered Justin Wylie about what playing for GB has meant for him and how he and team are looking to go forward.

  • Feb 23, 2023 · 1 hr 26 min

    Episode 306 - The Boys Expand MLB - Part 1

    We know it's coming at some point in the future so, this week the BFAN team try and get ahead of it by creating their own MLB expansion team. Part 1 of the series looks into where the team should be located and what the team namew should be. The team...

  • Feb 16, 2023 · 1 hr 7 min

    Episode 305 - A "Brief" Guide to the WBC Rules and Rosters

    The Bat Flips boys are back to talk about the WBC, this is alittle mini guide to the rules, the pools and the players we will be seeing over the course of the tournament. Russell and Gav you the lowdown on the pitching limits, roster limitations and...

  • Feb 2, 2023 · 1 hr 31 min

    Episode 304 - National League Offseason Review

    Russell, Darius, Ben and Gav continue their review of the offseason but this time for the National League teams. Giving each team a grade based on the traditional 80-20 baseball grading scale.

  • Jan 6, 2023 · 1 hr 31 min

    Episode 302 - American League Offseason Review

    John and the gang are back from thier temporary hiatus to talk you through the offseason for American League teams. Giving each team a grade based on the traditional 80-20 baseball grading scale.

  • Oct 27, 2022 · 1 hr 5 min

    Episode 301 - And then there were two.

    Russell and our erstwhile site editor Gav talk throw the two completed Championship Series. Waxing lyrical about the excitement and entertainment of the NLCS and how the ALCS was actually much closer than the 4-0 and the New York media landscape would...

  • Oct 24, 2022 · 58 min

    Episode 300 - Anfernee Seymour Chats WBC and more

    Russell chats with GB talisman Anfernee Seymour about his baseball career. They reminisce about the recent exploits of the GB baseball team in the WBC qualifier in Regensberg, the growth and development of baseball in the Bahamas and how the changing...

  • Oct 20, 2022 · 1 hr 19 min

    Episode 299 - Do Geese Have Ears?

    Russell, Rob and Ben get together to review an entertaining set of wildcard and division series that threw up some upsets and extra-inning marathons. They end with a quick look ahead to the Championship Series and Great Britain's confirmed WBC pool in...