Slightly Better than Replacement Level
Typically this column is used to write about players who made a huge impact on the game. That impact just happened to be outside the walls of Major League Baseball. There are plenty of amazing players with amazing careers that I still need to get to, and I will. However, the under the dashboard purpose […]
Harry Strohm never played an inning of baseball in the major leagues. The Kansas City, Missouri native spent the entirety of his career, all 25 seasons, in the affiliated minor leagues. His is the sort of career that isn’t really possible nowadays. Strohm played in an era where there were more opportunities in the affiliated […]
I first saw Myles Smith on the mound in 2019. At the time he was the closer for a very bad Milwaukee Milkmen team. The Milkmen were in their first year of existence as an expansion franchise in the American Association. A player like Smith appeared to be just the type of player they would […]
It’s safe to say that most folks have become rather numb to the effects of the Coronavirus on professional baseball. We reached a fatigue point somewhere during the 2020 season and I honestly don’t believe most fans, and even pundits covering the sport, came back from that fatigue. For most, COVID is just a thing […]
Background Located in the Milwaukee, Wisconsin suburb of Franklin, the easily named Franklin Field has been in operation since 2019. That year the park was known as Routine Field and after an ugly legal spat over naming rights, the ballpark was briefly known as Milkmen Stadium during the off-season before officially becoming Franklin Field for […]