Slightly Better than Replacement Level
Recently I was listening to an episode of the Effectively Wild podcast. The episode in question was number 1487, We Remembered Some Guys. The basic gist of the episode was that co-hosts Ben Lindbergh and Sam Miller (Meg Rowley is also a co-host but was not involved in the majority of the episode) were briefly […]
Allison McCague – Baseball Prospectus ($): Whether you call it the Houston Plan, the Manfred Plan, or some other iteration makes no difference when it comes to Major League Baseball’s proposal to eliminate 42 Minor League Baseball teams. What does matter is that it is a terribly thought out plan that is choosing short term […]
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 […]
David Roth – Deadspin: As of this writing Deadspin as we all knew it is dead and buried. The new Deadspin is a zombie site, existing solely for clicks and not for quality content. In its death throes, Deadspin released this gem, which gets right to the heart of the connection between politics and sports. […]
I enjoy digging into stats, I think that much is clear from this website. Often times it’s easy to find the exact stat you may need to answer a question. There are other times though where finding the right stat may be difficult and confusing. Earlier in the year I wrote about the collection of […]