{"id":6895,"date":"2010-03-05T12:00:58","date_gmt":"2010-03-05T12:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/?p=6895"},"modified":"2010-03-05T07:09:09","modified_gmt":"2010-03-05T07:09:09","slug":"web-pick-of-the-week-josh-chetwynd-on-planet-hardball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/?p=6895","title":{"rendered":"Web pick of the week: Josh Chetwynd on Planet Hardball"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6264\" title=\"Web-Pick\" src=\"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/wp-content\/Web-Pick.png\" alt=\"Web-Pick\" width=\"128\" height=\"128\" \/>This week&#8217;s web pick sees the return of a familiar face, or at least the return of a familiar voice, to British baseball fans.\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/?p=1359\" target=\"_blank\">Josh Chetywnd<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0was part of the excellent team that brought us <em>&#8216;Baseball on Five&#8217;<\/em>, which continues to be greatly missed.\u00c2\u00a0 Sadly, MLB&#8217;s return to terrestrial TV in the UK doesn&#8217;t appear to be imminent and Josh would\u00c2\u00a0play a minimal part in\u00c2\u00a0the coverage\u00c2\u00a0in any case as he has now returned to the States with his family.<\/p>\n<p>However, Josh&#8217;s interest in European baseball, fuelled by\u00c2\u00a0his\u00c2\u00a0time in\u00c2\u00a0British baseball\u00c2\u00a0(with the national team and in the domestic leagues) and\u00c2\u00a0a season with a semi-pro team in Sweden,\u00c2\u00a0has not diminished.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0He created a\u00c2\u00a0system to rank European club teams several years ago\u00c2\u00a0and he publishes the rankings\u00c2\u00a0at Mister-Baseball.com, refining the system each year.\u00c2\u00a0 Josh was invited on to the latest episode of the Planet Hardball podcast to talk about the 2009 season rankings, passing on lots of useful information about the state of baseball in Europe in the process.<\/p>\n<p>You can get to the podcast via the <a href=\"http:\/\/planethardball.com\/2010\/03\/01\/podcast-josh-chetwynd-and-the-top-50-european-teams\/\" target=\"_blank\">relevant blog post<\/a> on Planet Hardball.\u00c2\u00a0 Incidentally, this is a relatively new website &#8220;dedicated to raising awareness of baseball being played around the world&#8221;.\u00c2\u00a0 Definitely one to add to your bookmarks or RSS feed reader.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week&#8217;s web pick sees the return of a familiar face, or at least a familiar voice, to British baseball fans<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[557,24,163,86],"class_list":["post-6895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb-2","tag-european-baseball","tag-five","tag-josh-chetwynd","tag-web-picks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6895"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6898,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6895\/revisions\/6898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}