Slightly Better than Replacement Level
Ken Schultz – Outsports: Baseball is about community and it’s important that we make all valued members of the baseball community feel welcome. Pride Days are only a start, it matters more what teams do in-between Pride Days. Still, that start is very important, because without the LGBTQ+ community there is no baseball community. It’s […]
Out of all the unaffiliated leagues out there I probably watch more American Association than any other league. Being a season ticket holder for our local AA team the Milwaukee Milkmen certainly helps in this regard. So does being a big fan of the St. Paul Saints, and the general easy availability of all league […]
As a season ticket holder with the Milwaukee Milkmen I watch a lot of American Association baseball. Outside of Major League Baseball, it’s probably the league I watch the most baseball from these days. I’m a regular viewer of American Association TV and in general, find the league to be both a lot of fun […]
The state of Albert Almora Jr.’s 2019 campaign, if not his whole career, can be summed up in the experience of writing this article. I initially wanted to write about how odd it was that a talented contender like this years Chicago Cubs would continue to trot out a below replacement level player as much […]
My issues with the National Baseball Hall of Fame have been well documented on this site. Those views haven’t changed, but I am a fan of Jay Jaffe’s writing for FanGraphs, and that made his book The Cooperstown Casebook an easy grab while perusing a local Half Price Books a few months back. I knew […]