Slightly Better than Replacement Level
Jim Allen – Jballallen.com: So much of our talk of baseball and labor centers around Major League Baseball and Minor League Baseball. That makes sense considering affiliated baseball dominates the news. However, sometimes it’s interesting to take a step back and look at labor and baseball in other leagues and countries. I don’t lay claim […]
David Roth – The New Republic: The Houston Astros cheated, the sign-stealing scandal has shown us that much. A ruling from Major League Baseball will come down at some point. However, there’s a lot more to the Astros and the current state of MLB front offices than just sign stealing. At the heart of MLB’s […]
The past couple of days I have watched games from Taiwan, Panama, Australia, the Dominican Republic, Mexico, and more. Sometimes I watched whole games, other times I caught a few innings or just an at-bat or two. I watched though, and the reason I watched is that I love baseball. It took me a long […]
Allison McCague – Baseball Prospectus ($): Whether you call it the Houston Plan, the Manfred Plan, or some other iteration makes no difference when it comes to Major League Baseball’s proposal to eliminate 42 Minor League Baseball teams. What does matter is that it is a terribly thought out plan that is choosing short term […]
In the 1890s two-way play was just a thing that happened. That’s not to say that it was extremely commonplace, but if you could swing a bat and throw a baseball you could play both ways if you so desired. That’s how baseball ended up with players like Cy Seymour. If they played great or […]