Slightly Better than Replacement Level
I’m not going to try and lie and act like I was acutely aware of who Juan Pizarro was prior to his passing a couple of weeks back. In all my various baseball research I had never stumbled across his name as more than a passing oddity. Even then I can’t say with one hundred […]
Nelson Figueroa’s Major League Baseball career was long, but not exactly noteworthy. He spent nine seasons in MLB and by the time he was finished had amassed a career 92 ERA+ and 2.7 rWAR. Like I said, not exactly noteworthy, but Figueroa’s professional baseball career did not begin in 2000 and it did not end […]
The Liga de Béisbol Profesional Roberto Clemente season is now far enough along that we can look at some performances and either ooh or wail. One thing to be quite sad about with the latest LBPRC season is the continued low attendance numbers. The island is still recovering from Hurricane Maria and it makes sense […]
Last week’s Liga de Béisbol Profesional Roberto Clemente semifinals featured a couple of blowouts that saw Gigantes de Carolina move past Cangrejeros de Santurce and Criollos de Caguas send Indios de Mayagüez home. LBPRC Wild CardLBPRC Semifinals Caguas and Carolina square off in the championship game with the winner of that moving on to the […]
The Liga de Béisbol Profesional Roberto Clemente wild card game didn’t prove to be much of a contest as Gigantes de Carolina manhandled Atenienses de Manatí to advance to the semifinals. LBPRC Wild Card Game The three teams that received wild car byes now enter the fray. Voting remains the same, with the winners meeting […]