Slightly Better than Replacement Level
A few years back I started a, now abandoned project, of calculating the true win-loss records of every team to ever play professional baseball. My methodology was to go league-by-league and in every season in a given league add in the playoff results to the regular season results. Once that was finished, presto, I could […]
Every so often you start reading a book and realize very quickly, “Yeah man, this is my jam!” The book in question resonates with you from the very onset and that resonation only grows stronger the deeper into the book you get. Finally, you finish the book and you wish there were more pages for […]
In the next month, I should have a review on the site of Rob Ruck’s Raceball. The short version of the review is that it is one of the best books on baseball I have ever read. While all of it has been interesting and thought-provoking there was one issue that was touched upon that […]
A few weeks back I sat down and was searching for something to watch while I ate dinner in my tiny apartment. During my browsing, I came across 2016’s Jackie Robinson and realized that somehow I had never gotten around to the documentary. Ken Burns’ Baseball has been a staple in my life for many […]