Slightly Better than Replacement Level
Initially, my inclination was to write a Transaction Analysis for Rusney Castillo signing with the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles. It is, after all, a rather important signing based on Castillo’s pedigree and his status as a Cuban who has not repatriated. For many of the usual reasons the Eagles signing of Castillo is news worth […]
If someone approached you with a stat line that read, “.285/.337/.373 with 737 hits, a career 87 OPS+ and 4.6 rWAR” you probably wouldn’t think much of the guy in question. That’s the reaction I would expect from most folks if they were told Jigger Statz’s Major League Baseball stats line. It’s both unimpressive and […]
Every once in a while a baseball story comes to my attention that simply put, makes me happy. These days those stories are few and far between, but they still exist. One such story just occurred this past week when the Kansas City T-Bones announced they were changing their name and branding to that of […]
There’s a wide world of pro baseball at our fingertips. No matter how immersed you may be in the comings and goings of the pro baseball landscape some items will escape you. For me, Telvin Nash ended up being one of those news items that somehow escaped my glance. It’s especially galling since the last […]
When we talk about professional baseball and the idea of the color line that dominated Major League Baseball’s activities for so many years we are almost exclusively talking about black ballplayers. Specifically, African-American ballplayers. Most discussions of the Negro Leagues are centered on African-American ballplayers. The eventual breaking of the color line is once again […]