Slightly Better than Replacement Level
I absolutely love the ridiculousness of professional baseball. It’s a sport, sure, but it is also a professional endeavor. It’s something that grown adults are partaking in so that they can make money, build a career, live their lives, etc. Yet, at the same time, professional baseball is home to events and happenings that are […]
On August 30th, 2021 Wang Kuang-hui passed away at the age of 56. If I were to simply break his career down in terms of numbers I’m sure a lot of folks would come away underwhelmed. I’ll get to his actual stats in a bit, but to focus only on those would be to sell […]
Imagine for a moment that you’re Teddy Stankiewicz. You’re riding high on the wave of leading the Uni-President 7-Eleven Lions to the 2020 Chinese Professional Baseball League championship. You’ve spent two winters in Mexico and the Dominican Republic as well as two summers in Taiwan showing that you are one of the best pitchers in […]
Not all baseball stories are good baseball stories. Some are awful with a dash of morbidity and confusion tossed into the mix. That’s the best way I can think of to describe the end of Milton Harper’s career and life. The two are intertwined but in reality, not much is known about how his life […]
Thanks to the Taiwanese government, correctly, locking their country down to better handle a spike in Coronavirus cases I find myself with a little more time to catch up on intriguing Chinese Professional Baseball League stories. At the very top of that list is the performance of the young phenom, Hsu Jo-hsi. In a league […]