Slightly Better than Replacement Level
There are two things I believe I am well known for in baseball circles, loving the Chicago Cubs and pushing hard for others to pay attention to unaffiliated pro leagues. There are times when those two areas co-exist, and I get quite giddy when that happens for a good reason. Right now my love of […]
There was a time when Pan Wei-Lun was one of the most dominant pitchers in the Chinese Professional Baseball League. Over the course of his seventeen-year career, all spent with the Uni-President 7-Eleven Lions, he has managed an ERA of 3.22. Knowing that he has now had four seasons with an ERA above the 4.50 […]
I am a huge fan of unaffiliated, or independent, professional baseball. This is, no doubt, rooted in a heavy anti-authority streak that causes me to want to root against the Goliath of organized baseball that is Major League Baseball and it’s less Goliathy but still damn humongous son, Minor League Baseball. Well, not root against, […]
José Miguel Fernández came up with the Cocodrilos de Matanzas in the Serie Nacional de Béisbol. He exhibited a healthy amount of power and an extreme contact-oriented bat. When he was finally able to defect from Cuba he was courted by a number of teams before ultimately signing a minor league contract with the Los […]
Daniel R. Epstein – Beyond the Box Score: Women play baseball, that is a simple fact. They play in the amateur ranks and they play professionally, both in their own leagues and in leagues with men. There’s no reason that women playing baseball shouldn’t get more attention, but ultimately the women who do play get […]