Slightly Better than Replacement Level
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 […]
Dale Gear had dabbled with being a two-way player through most of the beginning of his career. In 1898 with the Kansas City Blues of the A-level Western League he took the plunge the rest of the way. That year he played 1 game at first base, 2 games at second base, 1 game at […]
At this point in the Major League Baseball Season if I were to ask a group of people to name the best pitcher in the league I’d get a smattering of similar answers; Jacob DeGrom, Justin Verlander, Hyun-jin Ryu, Blake Snell, Max Scherzer, etc. All of those guys would be great picks and they are […]