Slightly Better than Replacement Level
Unaffiliated baseball in North America (for the purposes of the North American definition used here we are not including Mexico as the various Mexican leagues are part of the Latin American sphere of baseball) can be a bit strange. I don’t mean that in a negative way, but unaffiliated baseball in North America is different […]
Estrellas Orientales steamrolled the competition en route to winning the Liga de Béisbol Profesional de la República Dominicana bracket. They advance to the later to be held championship bracket. LIDOM First RoundLIDOM SemifinalsLIDOM Championship This past week Liga de Béisbol Profesional Roberto Clemente opened up their 2019-2020 season and that makes it a good time […]
J.P. Breen – Baseball Prospectus ($): The economics of Major League Baseball can seem daunting at times. A collection of mega-corporations under the umbrella of what amounts to an ultra mega-corporation means there is quite a bit of money at play. Most of that doesn’t matter, because at the end of the day we know […]
Harry Wolter was a fiery gentleman, though not in terms we usually associate with Deadball Era ballplayers. As far as off the field activities were concerned, Wolter played it pretty straight and narrow. However, he did stick up for himself when it came to being paid his actual wages as a ballplayer. This resulted in […]
About halfway through this past Central League (JPCL) season, I wrote about the interesting career path of Xavier Batista. At the time he deserved all the praise in the world for having turned his career around. The Hiroshima Toyo Carp slugger had gone from a prospect to out of baseball to a developmental prospect again […]