Slightly Better than Replacement Level
I recently changed jobs, well, not jobs but departments. I left my rural Illinois border department and took a job with a department in the metropolitan Milwaukee area. It’s presented a lot of changes, and to say I’m still getting the hang of those changes would be an understatement. One of the biggest differences has […]
I keep a Google Notes tab for this site open at all times. It’s a random collection of ideas and topics that I plan to write about at some point. Sometimes a topic will sit in that tab for a few hours before I get to it and other times it will sit there for […]
Michael Baumann – The Ringer: The week started off innocently enough with a continued push by Major League Baseball executives and owners to get a season underway. Except it wasn’t all that innocent, the plan was nefarious in fact. What MLB had put forth was a plan that scientists couldn’t endorse and no one outside […]
Michael Baumann – The Ringer: There are a number of issues with Major League Baseball playing in 2020. This site has discussed many of them and the online baseball community has hit this topic hard over the past few months. Clearly the topic hasn’t been hit hard enough because now MLB executives and team owners […]
A few weeks back Baseball Reference unveiled their newest invention, Stathead. This will be replacing Play Index as the site’s premier search engine. Almost unanimously this news was met with welcome arms. This is understandable, but all the same, I think there is one key area where Stahead comes up woefully short; Negro Leagues integration. […]