Slightly Better than Replacement Level
The Australian Baseball League canceled its 2021-2022 season, but a few ABL clubs weren’t content with taking the season off. The Melbourne Challenge is a result of the Melbourne Aces wanting to play baseball this winter and play baseball they have. It’s a circus league, which for those not familiar is not a bad thing. […]
Upon finishing Solid Fool’s Gold I had to check my bookshelf to see how many more Bill James books I had left to read. A few years back before I had gotten too deep into the more analytical side of baseball I had bought a handful of James books based on reputation alone. I haven’t […]
A baseball moment that has been burnt into our heads is that of May 1st, 1991. On that day Rickey Henderson stole third base and in doing so he passed Lou Brock as the all-time leader in career stolen bases at the major league level. As a kid growing up, and even well into adulthood, […]
Henry Urrutia has been a mainstay in Mexican baseball since before his affiliated days were even over. Throughout that time he has shown in both Liga Mexicana de Béisbol in the summer and Liga Mexicana del Pacífico in the winter that he was every bit the hitter that he was throughout his affiliated career. In […]
I’m sitting in my dining room on Friday morning recovering from my recent kidney stone surgery. I could be doing all kinds of things with my time, but thanks to a tweet from the always worthwhile WinterBall Data account I am perusing Junior Lake’s statistics. I really want to delve into his career, but I’m […]