Slightly Better than Replacement Level
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 […]
I’ve been writing far more opinion-driven articles lately. One of those articles specifically deals with the various methods we used to play baseball growing up. Needless to say, every group of friends had their own brand of baseball with varying surfaces used as fields, different rules, and a wide swath of items that were used […]
January 31st, 1931 is not a date that is ingrained into the brains of most baseball fans. The average baseball fan didn’t know there was baseball being played in Latin American countries on that date, nor did they really care. It’s hard to get modern fans to care about modern unaffiliated baseball being played in […]