Slightly Better than Replacement Level
It has been some time since I have stumbled across a baseball book that made me question its existence. There have been some books that were bad, some that were misguided or without focus. There have been books that lacked purpose or were written poorly. Not until Bart: A Life of A. Bartlett Giamatti did […]
Thanks to the Taiwanese government, correctly, locking their country down to better handle a spike in Coronavirus cases I find myself with a little more time to catch up on intriguing Chinese Professional Baseball League stories. At the very top of that list is the performance of the young phenom, Hsu Jo-hsi. In a league […]
I have never claimed to be an expert on Nippon Professional Baseball. I watch a decent amount, but the knowledge I have of the league is usually limited to insights I gain from others that are able to watch far more than me. One thing that has become patently obvious in my seven years of […]
For those unaware, and I think that means most of you, I recently got married. My wife’s wedding gift to me was a wood-engraved map of America. It’s not just any map, mind you, it’s a baseball map. What is a baseball map, well, a baseball map is a blank slate for my wife and […]
Recently I was listening to the This Week in Baseball History podcast. TWiBH is one of my favorite baseball-related podcasts so it’s not surprising that I was listening to an episode. The guest for this particular episode was Mike Petriello of MLB.com fame. He was on the pod to talk about the stats-driven broadcasts of […]