Slightly Better than Replacement Level
Noah Frank – Baseball Prospectus ($): The secret has always been that the way the Oakland Athletics became a winning franchise in the Moneyball era was bad for baseball. We ignored that though, for plenty of reasons. It was fun to tie in our research with a front office more willing to consider said research, […]
I recently changed jobs, well, not jobs but departments. I left my rural Illinois border department and took a job with a department in the metropolitan Milwaukee area. It’s presented a lot of changes, and to say I’m still getting the hang of those changes would be an understatement. One of the biggest differences has […]
Anyone who writes fairly frequently knows how easily one can find themselves in a rut. You would think that this site being dedicated to the global game of professional baseball would leave me with endless topics to write about. The topics may be endless but finding a topic that you want to write about in […]
I keep a Google Notes tab for this site open at all times. It’s a random collection of ideas and topics that I plan to write about at some point. Sometimes a topic will sit in that tab for a few hours before I get to it and other times it will sit there for […]
Para ser honesto, aprecio las muestras de pequeña factura en el béisbol, pero estaba pensando no arrojarme sobre esto debido a que me parecía demasiado temprano: ¿El cubano José Miguel Fernández entró a este lunes por la noche golpeando .500 luego de sus primeras 81 apariciones en home en la KBO? ¡Eso suena increíble! Con […]