Slightly Better than Replacement Level
When the 2019 Major League Baseball offseason began I think the majority of Chicago Cubs fans were optimistic about how things would go. The past few years had seen the team spend big in areas where they needed to improve while at the same time the front office dangled the carrot of a major signing […]
Derrick Goold – St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Baseball is a funny game, always has been and always will be. A slight twinge in a decision here or there can change the trajectory of entire careers and franchises. Imagine if the St. Louis Cardinals had traded Albert Pujols before he ever played a regular season game for […]
Pierce Johnson was once a highly touted prospect in the Chicago Cubs organization. A first-round pick in the 2012 Amateur Draft, Johnson was to represent the future of the Cubs rotation. Life doesn’t always work out the way we expect it, as true in baseball as it is anywhere else. Injuries and down performances resulted […]
When Jabari Blash signed with the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles of Nippon Professional Baseball’s Pacific League it was met a lot of enthusiasm from certain online circles. Blash had been a Minor League Baseball stud, known for his towering home runs. When Blash connected with one it was a sight to see and the idea […]
I first became a fan of baseball in the mid-1980s. There was a lot to love about the game, some things right off the bat, while other aspects I grew to love as time went on. One element of baseball that I loved from the get-go was the concept of the stolen base. The entire […]