Guerreros de Oaxaca signed CF-S Eric Young Jr. to an unknown contract Last year for the first time in his career Young found himself out of affiliated baseball. He had always been a decent enough roleplayer to keep a job either as a bench player on a Major League Baseball club or as a depth […]
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This Week in Baseball: 03-30-2020
Justin Klugh – FanGraphs: Removing one’s self from baseball isn’t easy. I haven’t been able to during the shutdown. However, there is a way of thinking that a slight absence will make you appreciate the game that much more once you return to it. I have to believe that there is some truth in that […]
A Russian Star in Japan
The name Victor Starrfin doesn’t appear in a search of any of the main baseball stat sites. It’s not a name that is well known, anywhere really. Heck, I’m someone who likes to consider himself a student of the game of baseball and when I stumbled across Starrfin’s name while researching another project I had […]
Transaction Analysis: If an MVP is Available You Should Sign Him
Pericos de Puebla signed 1B/2B/3B-R José Sermo to an unknown contract A few weeks back I had a write-up for Keon Barnum to the Pericos all ready to be published. Hours before it was scheduled to go live Barnum signed a minor league deal with the Washington Nationals. That was a pretty big loss for […]
Turmoil in the Caribbean
Earlier this year I wrote about some interesting decisions being made by Confederación de Béisbol Profesional del Caribe, the governing body of Serie del Caribe (CWS). I don’t particularly care about the CWS being moved up a week or two. The tournament only takes a week to complete and moving it either forward or backward […]