Slightly Better than Replacement Level
If you’re anything like me, and if you’re reading this site then you’re at least a little like me, then you love a good uniform. A while back I had the idea of doing a tournament-style series of posts to determine who has the best uniforms in all of professional baseball. The format I settled […]
The second half of the Chinese Professional Baseball League has a different feel to it than the first half did. This is evident in the standings where the Fubon Guardians have, as of this Sunday, staked themselves out a 1 game lead over the second-place Chinatrust Brothers. The first half champion Lamigo Monkeys find themselves […]
There was a time when Pan Wei-Lun was one of the most dominant pitchers in the Chinese Professional Baseball League. Over the course of his seventeen-year career, all spent with the Uni-President 7-Eleven Lions, he has managed an ERA of 3.22. Knowing that he has now had four seasons with an ERA above the 4.50 […]
I am a huge fan of unaffiliated, or independent, professional baseball. This is, no doubt, rooted in a heavy anti-authority streak that causes me to want to root against the Goliath of organized baseball that is Major League Baseball and it’s less Goliathy but still damn humongous son, Minor League Baseball. Well, not root against, […]
Jesse Dougherty – The Washington Post: When people refer to America as a melting pot I tend to roll my eyes. It’s a phrase that gnaws at me for no other reason than it is very cliche. There is truth in that phrase, cliche-ridden or not. Baseball in America is truly the embodiment of the […]