Slightly Better than Replacement Level
Welcome to the first edition of Unaffiliated Happenings. For those who missed the question about whether I should do this, here’s a quick breakdown of what we’re doing here. On a semi-weekly basis, I’ll release an Unaffiliated Happenings column where I’ll break down three or so of the most interesting unaffiliated news stories from the […]
Last week the Atlantic League made baseball headlines when the Wild Health Genomes selected Alexis Hopkins with the eighth pick of the 2022 ALPB Player Draft. What made the selection headlines is that Alexis Hopkins is a woman. That fact led to a lot of headlines, and while well-intentioned most of those headlines buried two […]
For over three years now I have had a certain topic sitting in my note of things to write about. For a while, I avoided the topic because while I thought it was worthwhile, I wasn’t sure if I was the one to write it. Then I kept putting the topic off because I wasn’t […]
Near the end of his Major League Baseball career, it was clear to anyone watching that Brandon Phillips wasn’t enjoying himself any longer. Throughout his 14 years in MLB Phillips had been known for his electric personality on the field and his matching play. There were holes in his game just as there were holes […]
On May 21, 2021, Josh Sale signed a contract with the Gastonia Honey Hunters. There was no fanfare for this signing, in fact, the great majority did not care. It wasn’t that the Honey Hunters are an Atlantic League team. Rather, it was that Sale had been out of baseball long enough that he was […]