Slightly Better than Replacement Level
Acereros de Monclova signed LHP Ryan Verdugo to an unknown contract A championship doesn’t mean you have a perfect team, that’s why the reigning Liga Mexicana de Béisbol champions have signed Verdugo. It’s unclear right now what role Verdugo will take on with Monclova, but he provides them with either starting or relief pitching depth. […]
Our next League Primer keeps things in Asia, but we’re moving on over to Taiwan for the Chinese Professional Baseball League. History The CPBL has been around since 1989, but its roots stretch back to 1984. Baseball had been popular in Taiwan for some time, but the country lacked any formal baseball structure beyond a […]
No one cares. It’s a harsh statement to make, but an honest one. It’s also a statement that I have to remind myself of based on what I have chosen to write about. I’m not referencing unaffiliated baseball this time, though it is true that the great majority do not care about that baseball either. […]
Next up in the League Primer series is the second Nippon Professional Baseball farm league, the Western League (JPWL). The JPWL begins play in a little under a month. History The JPWL has been around since the early 1960s when it was created to allow for the two main leagues in Nippon Professional Baseball to […]
Jeffrey Paternostro – Baseball Prospectus ($): In a perfect world it wouldn’t be a big deal that minor leaguers will be appearing for the first time in the 20th edition of the MLB The Show video game franchise. Minor leaguers would be paid for their likenesses in addition to earning a living wage. We don’t […]