Slightly Better than Replacement Level
I write a lot on this site about unaffiliated baseball. It has become the main driving force behind Words Above Replacement. The purpose or goal of this site has never been to shame Major League Baseball fans for being fans of that organization. I am a Chicago Cubs fan, after all, that hasn’t changed even […]
Venados de Mazatlán traded Sebastian Valle C-R to Yaquis de Obregón for Isaac Paredes 2B/SS/3B-R This was a remarkably easy trade for the Venados to make. While Valle had been adequate as a backup catcher for the Venados, that’s all he was ever going to be with them, a backup catcher. His solid defensive skills […]
ESPN recently aired a trailer for Long Gone Summer, a soon to be released documentary about the 1998 home run chase between Sammy Sosa and Mark McGwire. As a longtime Chicago Cubs fan who loved Sosa and was 17-years-old in 1998 this documentary is right in my wheelhouse. Watching the trailer I kept thinking and […]
There are some Negro Leagues greats who aren’t remembered and I can understand why. Those players were great at the wrong time or weren’t flashy in the way that allows players to remain relevant long after their careers have ended. I can look at those players and say, “Yeah, I can see why this player […]
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, […]