Slightly Better than Replacement Level
A couple of months removed from Major League Baseball’s restructuring of Minor League Baseball the dust has somewhat started to settle. MLB itself has laid bare what the minors are going to look like moving forward. Meanwhile, unaffiliated leagues throughout America have started accepting new member clubs and forming the blueprints for how their leagues […]
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 […]
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 […]
It’s become a yearly tradition for Baseball Writers Association of America members to release their National Baseball Hall of Fame ballots and hold their noses over voting for Curt Schilling. The initial reaction I have is similar to others, “why do they keep voting for him? Don’t they care about the victims of his hatred?” […]