Slightly Better than Replacement Level
Doc White never made a big splash as a two-way player. The reason for that is simple, he was too good of a pitcher. In 13 major league seasons White finished with a 2.39 ERA, 2.51 FIP, and 113 ERA+. Those aren’t the numbers of someone playing around with being a pitcher, those are the […]
When it comes to gifted but troubled pitchers there is one person at the top of the mountain; Ray Caldwell. His 23-year career was a consistent mixture of brilliance and unpredictability. He’d follow up a season where he was the best pitcher in the American League with a season where he left the team during […]
Right from the get-go, Otto Hess was a two-way player. Okay, okay, okay, not from the very get-go, but in his second year of professional baseball he took on the two-way player cause. It’s unclear what caused this to be the course of action because in 1902 with the American League’s Cleveland Bronchos he was […]
Dale Gear had dabbled with being a two-way player through most of the beginning of his career. In 1898 with the Kansas City Blues of the A-level Western League he took the plunge the rest of the way. That year he played 1 game at first base, 2 games at second base, 1 game at […]
I regularly watch Major League Baseball, I think that goes for most of us. Not just my favorite team, the Chicago Cubs, no, I try to watch as much MLB as I can in a given week. Again, this is something that I think goes for most of us. It may seem like I’m stating […]