Slightly Better than Replacement Level
Early on in the Chinese Professional Baseball League season, Aríel Miranda was the talk of the league. He came into the CPBL and set the league on fire. His approach was more straight forward than most foreign pitchers and the idea of a big dude getting guys out while pumping heat was easy to buy […]
Anyone who writes about baseball in the year 2020 finds themselves in an interesting place. Specifically, those of us writing about baseball in the Americas are stuck in-between a rock and a hard place. The question we are faced with is whether to watch or not to watch? Do we watch and write about something […]
The waiting game is sometimes necessary with players new to the unaffiliated leagues. Especially those with Major League Baseball experience. Far too often those players show up in an unaffiliated league, dominate for a few games, then hit a wall. They hit that wall hard and more often than not find their way out of […]
Sheryl Ring – Beyond the Box Score: Major League Baseball is an organization that needs to change with the times. MLB loves to trot out Jackie Robinson as a symbol of their progressive leanings, but they have turned Robinson into nothing more than eyewash. The reality of the organization is that they remain deeply racist […]
In his second start of the 2020 Korea Baseball Organization season, starting right-hander Min-woo Kim looked like the Hanwha Eagles first overall pick from the 2015 Draft. Kim, 24, exterminated the Lotte Giants with 98 pitches in 7 solid innings. He allowed just 2 hits and 1 run, while striking out 6 opponents to accumulate […]