Slightly Better than Replacement Level
I didn’t grow up a Mickey Mantle fan. Not only was his career after my time, but other than some mentions on Seinfeld, he wasn’t present, or even mentioned, in the popular culture I consumed. As I dove deeper into baseball history, I never got the Mantle bug, so to speak. I accrued a cursory […]
As Rothstein: The Life, Times, and Murder of the Criminal Genius Who Fixed the 1919 World Series came to a close, I struggled with what I had just read. Mainly, I struggled with the idea that anyone could read David Pietrusza’s book and not find it terminally boring. When I finally turned to the last […]
It’s been some time since I’ve written about a two-way player in baseball. I haven’t abandoned my project of cataloging the careers of these fascinating players. However, life does get in the way sometimes, and well, two-way players aren’t exactly a super pressing matter most of the time let alone when my schedule is full […]
Sometimes we don’t appreciate what we have even when it’s right in front of us. Despite Julio Franco having a long Major League Baseball career and the majority of that career taking place during my formative baseball watching years I never realized how great of a player he actually was. It wasn’t until recently that […]
Background One can find Progressive Field in the heart of downtown Cleveland, Ohio. The field has been in operation since 1994 and was known as Jacobs Field from then until 2007 before taking on its current name in the 2008 season. The stadium can seat 35,041 at capacity and is part of a larger almost […]