Baseball Expats

Eric is on a schedule. What else is new? The boys try to beat their National League All-Star theme team by building an American League version using the same rules, then check in on Destiny Draft heading into the final weekend before the All-Star break. We also run through the release plan for next week. We’ll be back Monday previewing the Home Run Derby and All-Star Game, then after the break we’...

Rolsey and Spoon are holding the fort this week, starting with a quick discussion about Eric’s absence and whether we should be concerned, impressed, or used to it. From there, the boys get into the whole “first half / second half” thing in MLB. It’s not actually a true half of the season, but every year everyone gets swept up in the idea anyway, so we talk about what matters, what doesn’t, and wh...

Quick Weekend Pickoff this week. Eric joins from a hockey rink in Hobart, Rolsey is racing the clock to get to the butcher before his wife’s 4th of July birthday barbecue becomes accidentally meatless, and Spoon is absolutely on fire. We start with a quick Destiny Draft update. Head to BaseballExpats.com and click Destiny Draft to follow the live scoreboard. Ibbo also waxes poetically about leadin...

We start this one by asking a very simple question: what on earth is going on with Josh Naylor? After a few of his recent antics, the boys try to work out whether he’s just playing with edge, fully leaning into the bit, or becoming one of baseball’s great chaos agents. From there, we get into the All-Star voting, which has officially become less “who deserves to start?” and more “which fanbase can...

Destiny Draft is back for Round 4, and this week Ibbo jumps in as the listener pick. We start with a quick look back at Round 3, which has officially wrapped and moved the season table along nicely. There were a few wins, a few regrets, and probably a few picks everyone would like to quietly pretend never happened. Then we get straight into the Round 4 draft. Ibbo joins the chaos, the boys work th...

Eric is allegedly stuck on a train, bus, or some other very convenient form of transport, so it’s just Spoon and Rolsey for this Weekend Pickoff. The boys give their immediate thoughts after Australia’s nil-all draw with Paraguay sends them into the Round of 32 at the World Cup, then check in on Destiny Draft before turning to two Aussies making serious noise in MLB: Travis Bazzana and Curtis Mead...

The boys are all back together and, good news, Eric’s microphone is working again. His camera isn’t, but honestly, that feels like the better outcome. We start with a Destiny Draft update after Spoon’s massive weekend, hear from the Commish as the listener spot keeps putting up a proper fight, and check in on Eric and Rolsey, who are both doing a little bit of drowning and need big weeks. Head to...

Quick disclaimer off the top: Eric’s mic decided to have an absolute shocker for this one, but we forged on because the baseball waits for no one. The boys are back together for the Weekend Pickoff, and before we get anywhere near the actual baseball, Eric decides to audition a brand new theme song inspired by this week’s World Cup Destiny Theme Team. It is exactly as polished as you would expect....

The boys are all back together, and this week we get into the World Cup spirit. First up, the Scottish fans basically take over Fenway Park on Sunday Night Baseball, which sends us into a chat about football crowds, baseball crowds, and what MLB can learn from a proper tournament atmosphere. From there, we talk about the madness of four World Cup draws in a single day, how rare that is, and whethe...

Round 3 of Destiny Draft is here. The boys recap Round 2, hear from The Canary after his run as listener picker, then meet our new guest picker for Round 3 before cracking into another card-fuelled snake draft. As always, the pack decides the player pool, the boys make the picks, and the next two weeks decide who cooked and who’s cooked. Follow along at baseballexpats.com by clicking the Destiny D...

Rolsey’s away so it’s just Eric and Spoon holding the fort. We start with a Destiny Draft check-in and the brutal injury curse that’s hit the player pool again (Judge, Buxton, Varsho… it’s grim). We also shout out the new tools on baseballexpats.com — the live scoreboard and Rolsey’s searchable Destiny Draft points database. From there Eric catches Spoon up after a week away, including the live ch...

Round 2 is here for Destiny Draft. Follow along at baseballexpats.com on the Destiny Draft live scoreboardd. Before we’re joined by our guest picker, The Canary, Rolsey climbs onto the soapbox to complain (lovingly) about not being able to watch enough Cardinals–Cubs after a ripping weekend of baseball. From there we touch on the injury toll piling up across MLB, but also the flip side: a few key...

Rolsey, Eric and Spoon are back together to tee up the weekend, starting with the early rumblings of collective bargaining talks between MLB, the owners, and the MLBPA. From there we revisit a stat Eric brought up last year around how meaningful May 31 can be when it comes to who actually makes the playoffs, which teams tend to fade out and which ones push their way in. Then Spoon closes the episo...

The boys are back and we start by recapping Destiny Draft. Congrats to Spoon, and we also talk about where the whole concept goes from here. If you want to follow along, head to BaseballExpats.com.au and click into Destiny Draft to find the live scoreboard and the new tools. Then we get into the story of the day: the Astros throwing a combined no-hitter, featuring an outstanding debut from Alimber...

The boys are back, it's frteezing in Adelaide, and Spoon might genuinely be the only person on earth who owns an Arizona Diamondbacks sweatshirt. The good news is it’s working: Spoon’s D-backs are absolutely flying in Destiny Draft. We kick off with a quick Destiny Draft update and a couple of new toys on baseballexpats.com: the live scoreboard: https://www.baseballexpats.com/blog/destiny-draf...

We start with Cal Raleigh hitting the IL, which Spoon called, in the most baseball way possible: after showering with his full uniform on, getting a base hit, and then somehow still ending up shelved. Then we hit the strangest storyline in the league: Shohei Ohtani has been wildly disappointing at the plate… yet he’s still sitting right near the top of MVP betting because he’s been able to “cover”...

We start with a quick Destiny Draft recap. It was a bit of a ho-hum start to the window, but the live scoreboard is up and running on baseballexpats.com — follow along here: https://www.baseballexpats.com/blog/destiny-draft-2026-live-scoreboard Then the episode turns into an impromptu “theme team” that isn’t a theme team at all: an All-Disappointment Team. We run through the guys who’ve underwhelm...

Destiny Draft is back for 2026. If you weren’t with us last year, Spoon recaps the rules up top: it’s a short-window fantasy draft where a pack of baseball cards determines the player pool, and then the boys run a snake draft to build their teams for the next two weeks. The one big change this year: we’ve added a guest picker. For Round 1, Grom joins the table and jumps into the chaos for this two...

It’s a special Weekend Pickoff because it’s Spoon’s 30th birthday, so the boys have a proper laugh before he heads into a big birthday bash. We swap a few of our most memorable birthdays (some good, some… regrettable), then check in on last week’s bad juju and whether it’s finally starting to turn. From there we get into Chandler Simpson, one of the most unique talents in baseball right now, and w...

The full crew is back together. Eric gives us a quick rundown of what it was like having his dad in town for a couple of weeks, then we get straight into it. First, we address the elephant in the room: Rolsey and Spoon have been carrying some serious bad juju lately. It feels like everyone we’ve talked up has immediately met their demise. Eric tries to weaponise the curse because he’d love nothing...

Eric’s still out, so it’s full-time podcasters only this week: Rolsey and Spoon. Rolsey takes Spoon through a stack of wild stats from the past week, record-breaking stuff, weird April heaters. Then Spoon runs a quick temperature check on his futures plays: what’s been hot, what hasn’t, and a tease for a full monthly review landing soon on baseballexpats.com. We finish with Spoon’s best tips for t...

It’s a rare Wednesday episode because Eric couldn’t join us yesterday, and even rarer, we’re recording while games are live. And somehow it turns into a full rookie-themed special. We start with the big-league debut of Travis Bazzana, how we remember watching him coming up, and why Cleveland feels like the “must-watch” team if you follow Australian baseball talent. Weirdly, the other one might be...

It’s a two-man Weekend Pickoff this week with Eric lost in a bush somewhere, so it’s just Rolsey and Spoon holding the fort. Rolsey is running on fumes after a big night at Leichhardt Oval (the eighth wonder of the world), while Spoon is looking forward to a quiet weekend of baseball on the couch. We dive into the weekend slate, headlined by Padres vs D-backs in Mexico City, where Spoon is expecti...

The boys are all back in town. Eric’s fresh off the Australian Women’s Championship, so we start with what he saw, what the vibe was like, and how the Aussie scene feels heading into the first season of the WPBL. We do our best not to overdo the three-guys-talking-women’s-baseball thing, realise we’re dangerously close to mansplaining, and pivot back to MLB. From there we hit a wild travel story t...

It’s just Rolsey and Spoon this week with Eric still away, and we’re recording a day early because Spoon’s heading to Cowell, South Australia tomorrow to visit his partner. He was so excited he joined the booth five minutes early, which genuinely never happens. The Cowell trip sends Rolsey straight back to his months living in Cooktown, Far North Queensland, and the boys spiral into a love letter...