Slightly Better than Replacement Level
Jerry Beach – Forbes: Every single day it seems like there is a news story or another that makes Major League Baseball seem like an organization of ghouls. This past week was no different. MLB shortening the amateur draft and reducing the signing bonuses for draftees is yet another example of MLB being the absolute […]
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. […]
One of my favorite daily columns is Morning Mound Visit from Beyond the Box Score. In it, BtBS’s Managing Editor, Matt Provenzano, picks three recent sabermetrically inclined articles to highlight for BtBS’s readers to check out. That column is requisite reading for me every single day. Inevitably I discover a few articles every week that […]