Welcome back to Nine Innings, SI’s weekly look at what’s fun, cool, and somewhat stupid around the league. Today’s topics include: Madison Bumgarner having the ass; Brett Gardner fighting a helmet and losing; the best names of the 2019 draft; and much more.
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The war over bat flips is, for the most part, done, and the flippers have won.