Slightly Better than Replacement Level
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 […]
Reading this site it is clear that there is a sabermetric bent. I run this site by myself, don’t tell Zoo and Franny that, and enjoy digging as deep as I can into not just the results we see on a baseball field or a stat sheet but also why those results came about. I’m […]
Craig Edwards – FanGraphs: Major League Baseball is less competitive than it has been in a long time, maybe even ever. This is a big problem, one of the biggest problems facing MLB today. People watch sports to see competition and if that competition is not present then they eventually tune out and often never […]