Slightly Better than Replacement Level
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 […]
A new Chinese Professional Baseball League season hasn’t truly kicked off until this site has written about one specific player. This isn’t the only time I, or the site, will write about this player, but until I’ve published an article on Mike Loree everything else is eyewash. We’re now 30 games into the 2021 CPBL […]
As a long-time Chicago Cubs fan I was able to witness both of Jon Lester’s famous throw his glove to first base plays live as they happened. When the first happened I thought to myself, “Wow, how crazy is that.” When the second took place I wondered how many more times such a play has […]
Lost amid all the ruckus of Major League Baseball restructuring Minor League Baseball into a soulless monstrosity of the owner’s opulence has been the treatment of the players. It’s not that people stopped caring about how minor leaguers are being treated, but with a virus raging throughout the country and communities losing their baseball teams […]
Kiwoom Heroes signed RHP Jake Brigham to a 1-year, $480,000 contract This signing shouldn’t come as much of a surprise for a few reasons. First, Brigham has been dominant in the early going of the 2021 Chinese Professional Baseball League season. Second, the right-hander had been playing under monthly contracts with the Wei Chuan Dragons. […]