Slightly Better than Replacement Level
La última vez que escribí sobre la rotación de Saraperos de Saltillo fue antes de la temporada 2020 de la Liga Mexicana de Béisbol que nunca se llevó a cabo. Acababan de firmar a Lázaro Blanco y se combinaron con Félix Doubront —técnicamente también tenían a Sergio Mitre en ese momento, pero cuanto menos se […]
The last time I wrote about the Saraperos de Saltillo rotation was prior to the never-to-take place 2020 Liga Mexicana de Béisbol season. They had just signed Lázaro Blanco and combined with Félix Doubront (technically they had Sergio Mitre as well at the time, but the less said about a man accused of raping and […]
I’m not going to try and lie and act like I was acutely aware of who Juan Pizarro was prior to his passing a couple of weeks back. In all my various baseball research I had never stumbled across his name as more than a passing oddity. Even then I can’t say with one hundred […]
Nelson Figueroa’s Major League Baseball career was long, but not exactly noteworthy. He spent nine seasons in MLB and by the time he was finished had amassed a career 92 ERA+ and 2.7 rWAR. Like I said, not exactly noteworthy, but Figueroa’s professional baseball career did not begin in 2000 and it did not end […]
If not for a Coronavirus setback Liga de Béisbol Profesional de la República Dominicana fans would have gotten to see one of the league’s best pitchers by now. Alas, we live in the worst timeline and César Valdez’s 2020-2021 debut has been delayed by his bout with COVID-19. What better time than now to remind […]