Slightly Better than Replacement Level
Rob Whalen is playing professional baseball again. He recently signed with the West Virginia Power of the Atlantic League. He has not appeared in a game since 2018, a season in which he struggled mightily. Whalen isn’t being written about for traditional baseball reasons because more than anything else it is simply a nice feeling […]
So far I have used this column to highlight all-time great careers that were worthy of more notoriety. People who excelled outside of Major League Baseball at such a high level that not only should their careers be well remembered but they should be considered among baseball’s elite. There are plenty more players like that […]
Typically I don’t spend the time writing an article for any updates to the Baseball Streaming Guide. This time I’ve made an exception due to the massive number of leagues recently added to the Guide. Below I’ll get into why those leagues were added as well as a brief look at what leagues were actually […]
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 […]
A couple of months removed from Major League Baseball’s restructuring of Minor League Baseball the dust has somewhat started to settle. MLB itself has laid bare what the minors are going to look like moving forward. Meanwhile, unaffiliated leagues throughout America have started accepting new member clubs and forming the blueprints for how their leagues […]