Slightly Better than Replacement Level
In July of this year, the baseball world lost one of the greatest pitchers the game had ever seen. Helen Nicol lived to the age of 100 and at the time of her retirement was one of the best pitchers the game had ever seen. Yet, she is not enshrined in the National Baseball Hall […]
The Negro Leagues have long been an area where the very best of the online baseball research community has been able to shine. The little pockets that have formed around the Negro Leagues with nothing more than a deep desire to get the word out about those leagues and players have succeeded in doing just […]
If there’s one thing this website needs, it’s yet another column. Listen, I like to categorize things, I’m a big fan of things being neat and tidy. Hence this website having so many columns despite them all being written by myself and two other people. Anyways, my latest idea was for an occasional column detailing […]
Fresh off his tremendous Olympics performance for Team USA it feels like it’s a good time to take a deeper look at Tyler Austin and how is using his time in Nippon Professional Baseball’s Central League to turn his career around. He’s been playing in Japan for two years now and it feels as if […]
As I was in the middle of writing this article the direction of the article changed thanks to a rather large announcement. Before we get to that announcement, the original impetus was the trend of major baseball writers and sites continuing to write about major league stats and milestones while not incorporating Negro Leagues stats […]