Slightly Better than Replacement Level
Some great players have amazing careers that everyone is well aware of. Then there are players who have long careers that have ups and downs but overall end up being really great. We tend to write a lot about the players with amazing careers. Those with longer careers but lower peaks don’t warrant as much […]
In July of this year, the baseball world lost one of the greatest pitchers the game had ever seen. Helen Nicol lived to the age of 100 and at the time of her retirement was one of the best pitchers the game had ever seen. Yet, she is not enshrined in the National Baseball Hall […]
Sometimes we don’t appreciate what we have even when it’s right in front of us. Despite Julio Franco having a long Major League Baseball career and the majority of that career taking place during my formative baseball watching years I never realized how great of a player he actually was. It wasn’t until recently that […]
Typically this column is used to write about players who made a huge impact on the game. That impact just happened to be outside the walls of Major League Baseball. There are plenty of amazing players with amazing careers that I still need to get to, and I will. However, the under the dashboard purpose […]
On August 30th, 2021 Wang Kuang-hui passed away at the age of 56. If I were to simply break his career down in terms of numbers I’m sure a lot of folks would come away underwhelmed. I’ll get to his actual stats in a bit, but to focus only on those would be to sell […]