Slightly Better than Replacement Level
Roberto Ramos has been giving Korea Baseball Organization pitchers nightmares. The former Colorado Rockies prospect came into the league and immediately was hitting the cover off of the ball. Even in a season where the rumors are flying that the KBO baseball is juiced again his power numbers have been impressive. However, most impressive is […]
Michael Baumann – The Ringer: There are a number of issues with Major League Baseball playing in 2020. This site has discussed many of them and the online baseball community has hit this topic hard over the past few months. Clearly the topic hasn’t been hit hard enough because now MLB executives and team owners […]
No matter the professional baseball league in question, the issue of money is impossible to escape. This site doesn’t write about the financial side of unaffiliated baseball as much because for most leagues the money side of things isn’t as in your face as in affiliated baseball. Reading up on the latest Major League Baseball […]
Dixon Machado is all the talk of the current Korea Baseball Organization season. When you start the season slashing .389/.450/.889 and put together a WRC+ of 230 the talk is warranted. It would be easy to look at what Machado has done so far this season and declare it an aberration. His best WRC+ prior […]
Noah Frank – Baseball Prospectus ($): Minor League Baseball is facing a daily assault on its very existence. Maybe this would have happened anyway, or maybe this is happening because of COVID-19. The pandemic has stopped MiLB from playing and left them vulnerable to vulturism from Major League Baseball and Rob Manfred. One thing is […]