Slightly Better than Replacement Level
Harry Strohm never played an inning of baseball in the major leagues. The Kansas City, Missouri native spent the entirety of his career, all 25 seasons, in the affiliated minor leagues. His is the sort of career that isn’t really possible nowadays. Strohm played in an era where there were more opportunities in the affiliated […]
If one spends any amount of time scrolling through minor league statistics on Baseball Reference they quickly realize there are a lot of players with all-time great careers outside of Major League Baseball. I’m not even talking unaffiliated players, but rather those who spent most of their career in the affiliated minor leagues. There are […]
We’re almost deep enough into the latest Chinese Professional Baseball League season for there to have been enough games played to actually write meaningfully about the season. We’re not quite there yet though and I figured what way to scratch that always-present CPBL itch than with an article about an all-time CPBL great. Not just […]
So far I have used this column to highlight all-time great careers that were worthy of more notoriety. People who excelled outside of Major League Baseball at such a high level that not only should their careers be well remembered but they should be considered among baseball’s elite. There are plenty more players like that […]
I’m not going to try and lie and act like I was acutely aware of who Juan Pizarro was prior to his passing a couple of weeks back. In all my various baseball research I had never stumbled across his name as more than a passing oddity. Even then I can’t say with one hundred […]