Slightly Better than Replacement Level
Craig Edwards – FanGraphs: Major League Baseball is less competitive than it has been in a long time, maybe even ever. This is a big problem, one of the biggest problems facing MLB today. People watch sports to see competition and if that competition is not present then they eventually tune out and often never […]
Josh Norris – Baseball America ($): The majority of people have been clamoring for an automated strike zone in Major League Baseball for a while now. It will happen eventually, but I don’t think all the people shouting “robo umps now” quite realize the issues that still plague any automated system. A delay in the […]
Evan Drellich – The Athletic ($): There’s a chance that Major League Baseball isn’t actually messing with the baseballs. Time and time again MLB has proven itself to be an organization that struggles to perform even the simplest of tasks. Maybe, just maybe, they really weren’t trying to deaden the ball for the playoffs this […]
Sports Illustrated – Stephanie Apstein: There were a lot of moving parts to the San Diego Padres finally signing Manny Machado. Now that the deal is done there are less moving parts and things have become much clearer. One thing that has crystallized, the Padres knew who they were getting and already understand the ways […]