Slightly Better than Replacement Level
Not all baseball stories are good baseball stories. Some are awful with a dash of morbidity and confusion tossed into the mix. That’s the best way I can think of to describe the end of Milton Harper’s career and life. The two are intertwined but in reality, not much is known about how his life […]
On Sunday the New York Mets failed to sign their first-round pick from Major League Baseball’s 2021 amateur draft, Kumar Rocker. This is not where I will be joining the chorus of folks harping on the futility of the Mets or the mask completely coming off of Mets owner Steve Cohen following his comments after […]
I’ll be the first to admit, I’m not the biggest fan of biographies. Far too often, I find them lacking in actual content and bereft of the compelling moments that made up the subjects’ lives. Not that biographies don’t cover those moments, mind you. Rather, it’s that I’ve found it to be the case, especially […]
It’s been some time since any baseball news broke that I felt was worth running to my keyboard to cover for the site. Sure, cool stuff has happened as well as the typical baseball being shitty stuff. None of that jumped out at me though as something worth expounding and extrapolating on. Any sport that […]
Branding in professional baseball is hard. Not always, but a lot of the time there aren’t any slam dunk ways to market your baseball team and you settle on what you think will work the best. Then there are the times when what you think will work the best is you as an affiliated minor […]