Slightly Better than Replacement Level
In the earlier days of baseball two-way play was fairly common. The mound being closer, batters being able to call out the pitches they wanted, and more made it an era where players could pitch and be a position player more frequently. These circumstances are what gave us a player like Bob Caruthers. Good old […]
The end goal of every baseball team should be to win, I think that the majority of us can agree on that point. These days in Major League Baseball it doesn’t always seem like that’s what most teams are doing. Every day we are inundated with sound bites from one team or another’s front office […]
In the 1890s two-way play was just a thing that happened. That’s not to say that it was extremely commonplace, but if you could swing a bat and throw a baseball you could play both ways if you so desired. That’s how baseball ended up with players like Cy Seymour. If they played great or […]
Bobby Wallace was just too good of a fielder. He’s a member of the National Baseball Hall of Fame mainly because of his fielding ability. His hitting stats are rather average, but all who watched him considered him possibly the best defensive shortstop of the Deadball Era. He wasn’t always a light-hitting middle infielder. When […]
There is one constant whenever I am doing my research into the Negro Leagues. It’s not that all the players were black, because in actuality they weren’t. It’s not that the quality of play was always great, because honestly, there were some players, leagues, and teams that were pretty bad. No, the one constant over […]