Slightly Better than Replacement Level
Baseball Prospectus – Sung Min Kim ($): Teams can be bad, we all know this. Most of us are okay with that; not with the actual losses, but with the general idea that some years the team we like will simply not be competitive. On the other side of the spectrum, there is the idea […]
NBC Sports – Craig Calcaterra: This offseason has been a slow one, yet again. At the heart of the matter is teams being unwilling to spend money. They show investors powerpoint presentations of their business plans, make money from activities that have nothing to do with actually playing baseball, and maintain the status quo at […]
Ivy Envy – Teagan: The Chicago Cubs need Kris Bryant to be, well, Kris Bryant in 2019. There’s no denying that 2018 was a down year for the former National League Most Valuable Player. However, before his shoulder became an issue, Bryant was on pace to have his best year yet. Now that his injured […]
One of my favorite daily columns is Morning Mound Visit from Beyond the Box Score. In it, BtBS’s Managing Editor, Matt Provenzano, picks three recent sabermetrically inclined articles to highlight for BtBS’s readers to check out. That column is requisite reading for me every single day. Inevitably I discover a few articles every week that […]