Slightly Better than Replacement Level
There are two things I believe I am well known for in baseball circles, loving the Chicago Cubs and pushing hard for others to pay attention to unaffiliated pro leagues. There are times when those two areas co-exist, and I get quite giddy when that happens for a good reason. Right now my love of […]
Daniel R. Epstein – Beyond the Box Score: Women play baseball, that is a simple fact. They play in the amateur ranks and they play professionally, both in their own leagues and in leagues with men. There’s no reason that women playing baseball shouldn’t get more attention, but ultimately the women who do play get […]
Dale Gear had dabbled with being a two-way player through most of the beginning of his career. In 1898 with the Kansas City Blues of the A-level Western League he took the plunge the rest of the way. That year he played 1 game at first base, 2 games at second base, 1 game at […]
Today concludes Major League Baseball’s annual First-Year Player Draft. MLB desperately wants this to be an event, similar to the drafts held in the National Basketball Association and National Football League. To that end, they schedule a bare minimum of games on the first day, when the biggest names are picked, and do their darndest […]
MLB.com – Jesse Sanchez: Diamilette Quiles took the field this past week. It shouldn’t be news, yet it is, because in most places around the globe she would be told she couldn’t play or that she had to play in a different all-woman league if one existed in her area. Liga Béisbol Superior Doble A […]