This site has always been very forthright in the way that it views baseball. Part of our approach to the game of baseball has been to distinguish that baseball is a sperate term from Major League Baseball. This may seem like a small nit to pick, but it really is a big deal when one […]
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A Hot Start in Taiwan
It’s too early in the season for advanced stats to have any sort of meaning. Six games are nowhere near large enough of a sample size for us to look to WRC+ or wOBA or any of the other advanced metrics we regularly use to better breakdown Chinese Professional Baseball League players. We do have […]
This Week in Baseball: 04-20-2020
Jonathan Judge & Sean O’Rourke – Baseball Prospectus ($): Defensive metrics are notoriously dicey. There are lots of defensive stats to choose from and for the longest time, I’ve used a hodgepodge approach when it comes to including specific defensive stats in my arguments and articles. I always assumed that I was making bad arguments […]
Three Batter Minimum: The Future
I’ve been writing far more opinion-driven articles lately. One of those articles specifically deals with the various methods we used to play baseball growing up. Needless to say, every group of friends had their own brand of baseball with varying surfaces used as fields, different rules, and a wide swath of items that were used […]
El Inmortal Delivers in Mexico
Throughout his playing career, Martín Dihigo garnered the nicknames of El Inmortal and El Maestro. Those who know of Dihigo know that those nicknames were fitting for both the type of player has was and for how long he stayed at an elite level throughout his career. He did this in the Negro Leagues and […]