Slightly Better than Replacement Level
Game three of the 2019-2020 Liga Mexicana del Pacífico finals was an important contest for Venados de Mazatlán. This is true, of course, of every game in the LMP finals, but staring down a possible 0-3 deficit to a seemingly dominant Tomateros de Culiacán squad made the game that much more important. Win, and the […]
Right from the start, Jennifer Ring’s novel achieves its purpose: making the reader angry. Stolen Bases isn’t just the facts about the history of women in baseball or girls in youth baseball. Rather, this is a pointed crack at the establishment. Ring doesn’t come across as angry herself, but by beginning her novel with a […]
Saraperos de Saltillo signed RHP Lázaro Blanco to an unknown contract The signing of a talent like Blanco will always be big news, or at least it should be. When a team like Saltillo goes out and gets a player the caliber of Blanco it’s even bigger news. On the surface, this is a huge […]
Russell A. Carleton – Baseball Prospectus ($): Wins Above Replacement is a great statistic. I use WAR, in all its permutations, quite often and will continue to use it in my baseball writing moving forward. However, WAR, no matter the version, is not a conversation ender as far as statistics go. A baseball player isn’t […]
Tommy Byrne was 13 seasons into his professional baseball career when he made the switch from a pitcher who pinch-hit from time to time to a full-fledged two-way player. It makes perfect sense that he would adopt two-way play in 1954 in the Pacific Coast League. At the time the PCL was an independent league […]