Slightly Better than Replacement Level
Jarrett Seidler – Baseball Prospectus ($): I understand why the Major League Baseball Players’ Association made the concessions they did with the upcoming amateur drafts. They wanted their service time and they got just that. In doing so they mortgaged the future of the sport. Such shortsighted thinking will only continue to harm the game […]
January 31st, 1931 is not a date that is ingrained into the brains of most baseball fans. The average baseball fan didn’t know there was baseball being played in Latin American countries on that date, nor did they really care. It’s hard to get modern fans to care about modern unaffiliated baseball being played in […]
Daniel R. Epstein – Baseball Prospectus ($): The way that Major League Baseball owners, and MLB itself, have handled the shutdown has been almost universally atrocious. They had to be pressured into paying stadium workers and minor leaguers anything. Now that they are paying it’s still not enough as the billionaire and millionaire owners are […]
The end goal of every baseball team should be to win, I think that the majority of us can agree on that point. These days in Major League Baseball it doesn’t always seem like that’s what most teams are doing. Every day we are inundated with sound bites from one team or another’s front office […]
Going to keep this relatively short and sweet friends. The Coronavirus is a pandemic and that means that as should happen sports leagues the globe over are being canceled and suspended. This is, obviously, affecting baseball. While not all baseball leagues have announced changes to their seasons I can’t really justify continuing to do League […]