Slightly Better than Replacement Level
In the back of my head, there is one nagging thought that I can’t move past. This thought permeates all my discussions of baseball. There’s no way I can escape this thought, no matter of baseball in which I don’t feel it is prescient. I’ve tried, but no matter how I approach it or how […]
Yaquis de Obregón traded 1B/RF-R Xavier Scruggs to Mayos de Navojoa for CF/LF-R Alonzo Harris For Obregón this move is simple on the surface but more complicated the deeper you dig. It’s a flashy move if the entirety of Harris’ career is taken into account, but far less so when only his Liga Mexicana del […]
Major League Baseball is set to return. Let those words sink in for a moment and then throw out any idea you have of what this season may look like. Everything about the season, if there even is a season, will be different. Of all the possible changes the biggest one will be the lack […]
Yesterday was the first time Words Above Replacement posted an article in over a week. I feel that I owe some kind of explanation for this. This won’t be a long explanation, more of a simple “here’s the status of the site as it stands right now.” Maybe I explain things too much, but people […]
A big part of covering the wide world of unaffiliated baseball is the knowledge that you are covering the lesser-seen side of baseball. In all honesty, a lot of the time it is the unseen side of baseball. There’s no shame in that really, after all, unaffiliated baseball exists in a world where Major League […]