Slightly Better than Replacement Level
Baseball Prospectus – Shakeia Taylor: Tim Anderson hit a big home run and he flipped his bat. For that innocuous act, he was thrown at, but the story doesn’t end there. Anderson ended up with a one-game suspension because while yelling at the white child who hit him he called said child the n-word. There’s […]
The Undefeated – Rhiannon Walker: There are not enough minority managers in affiliated baseball. It’s far too easy to lose sight of this problem with the ongoing labor strife that dominates Major League Baseball discussions and the accompanying problem of fair pay for players in Minor League Baseball. Those issues aren’t going away, but neither […]
Baseball, specifically the game as it is played in America, is an odd duck when it comes to emotions. People want ballplayers to show that they care, but they also want them to go about their business. It’s important to fans that big moments are celebrated, but only in an amount and manner that is […]