Slightly Better than Replacement Level
Soon after the Chinese Professional Baseball League season starts the Future League (CFL) also begins their season. Learn all about the CPBL’s minor league. History The CFL started play in 2003. At first, it was a mixed league with some CPBL prospects and national level youth players. Now it’s strictly a CPBL farm league with […]
Acereros de Monclova signed LHP Ryan Verdugo to an unknown contract A championship doesn’t mean you have a perfect team, that’s why the reigning Liga Mexicana de Béisbol champions have signed Verdugo. It’s unclear right now what role Verdugo will take on with Monclova, but he provides them with either starting or relief pitching depth. […]
Our next League Primer keeps things in Asia, but we’re moving on over to Taiwan for the Chinese Professional Baseball League. History The CPBL has been around since 1989, but its roots stretch back to 1984. Baseball had been popular in Taiwan for some time, but the country lacked any formal baseball structure beyond a […]
Next up in the League Primer series is the second Nippon Professional Baseball farm league, the Western League (JPWL). The JPWL begins play in a little under a month. History The JPWL has been around since the early 1960s when it was created to allow for the two main leagues in Nippon Professional Baseball to […]
At age 20, increasing the velocity of his fastball is not exactly the strategic goal of the right-handed hurler of Leones de Industriales, Brayan Chi. After launching his 80th pitch this Sunday afternoon at the Latin American stadium in Havana, Chi’s mind did not stop working. He entered the dugout of the Under-23 Cuban national […]