Slightly Better than Replacement Level
For the most part, the unaffiliated baseball world is a very organized one. The years of it being this wild and crazy place where surprising stuff happens all the time ended long ago. They play professional baseball, the same as the affiliated leagues. There’s nothing truly zany about the way unaffiliated baseball leagues and teams […]
During a recent episode of the Indy Ball Report podcast, the hosts had on the Commissioner of the Frontier League, Bill Lee. Lee has always been a respected figure in the baseball world. One of the reasons for that has been his willingness to be transparent and to not hide behind the political maneuvering that […]
For months now people have been crying about baseball coming back. We all know that they really meant Major League Baseball and not baseball in general. Well, it’s time for people to admit that MLB is in the middle of a justifiable labor dispute and there may not be an MLB season this year. Even […]
I’ve been writing for Baseball Prospectus’ Short Relief for a little over a year now. Unfortunately, Short Relief is being shuttered this week. I think the writing that took place for Short Relief is very important. To that end, I’m going to continue the same sort of Short Relief articles on this site. Usually less […]
Baseball Prospectus has a feature they do whenever important trades or signings go down. For years I’ve used their Transaction Analysis articles as a quick way to get the lowdown on the who, what, where, and when of a free agent signing or trade. They do this for affiliated baseball and having written a few […]