Slightly Better than Replacement Level
I’ve written in the past about the efforts by various leagues to keep the fan atmosphere present at games even when fans aren’t allowed into stadiums. That trend has continued into Winter Ball, at least it has for most leagues. Every league has its own approach, but they generally fall into three categories: 1) Piped […]
If you haven’t heard of the World Baseball Softball Confederation I don’t blame you. Despite how it presents itself, Major League Baseball is not the worldwide governing body for baseball. That responsibility resides with the WBSC out of Switzerland. The WBSC has only been in existence since 2013 and for the most part they have […]
Yesterday was Opening Day in the 2020-2021 Liga de Béisbol Profesional de la República Dominicana season. This season will be quite different, thanks of course to the Coronavirus. At first, there will be no riled up and loud fans, the season will only be 30 games long, and the round-robin format has been shelved in […]
It’s a Wednesday afternoon in Milwaukee and I’m sitting in my living room. It’s a nice day out and an easy breeze is wafting in through the windows in my living room. I have an ice-cold root beer in my hand and a random Serie Nacional de Béisbol game is on my television. Life is […]
Leones de León signed RHP Lázaro Blanco to an unknown contract A few months back I wrote about Blanco signing with Saraperos de Saltillo of Liga Mexicana de Béisbol. Unfortunately, the LMB season ended up being canceled because of the Coronavirus, and Blanco never took the field in Mexico. However, my thoughts on Blanco that […]