Slightly Better than Replacement Level
One of the ideas often put forth in baseball circles is that going from Major League Baseball to Nippon Professional Baseball will result in instant success. The general context behind this idea is that MLB players are so good that even those MLB players who can no longer cut it in that league will excel […]
Stephen J. Nesbitt – The Athletic ($): Baseball is a game, a distinction that should carry nary a single negative connotation. Major League Baseball is a business, but at the end of the day, its players are playing a game. That means it’s fun, what they do is fun, and us watching them do their […]
If not for a 1922 demotion to the A-level New Haven ball club (As a reminder, I don’t use racist team names on this site so if you want to know the actual name you will need to look it up yourself) Johnny Cooney may never have spread his two-way wings. Though he spent his […]
The world moves fast, this is as true now as it ever has been. It is for that reason that I like to occasionally slow down and enjoy something. Because of my proclivity for watching unaffiliated baseball more often than not that means some discarded affiliated ballplayer. Sometimes that can mean a player still in […]
If you’re a baseball fan like me that means you utilize social media as your main method of keeping track of the comings and goings of the baseball you care about. For many of us, the days of opening the morning paper and scrolling through the day’s box scores are a thing of the past. […]