Slightly Better than Replacement Level
Jake Mailhot – FanGraphs: Major League Baseball teams are signing their players to extensions earlier than usual. While I’m all for players getting their money from the powers that be it’s worth looking under the hood of what these extensions most likely mean. Owners know that they will be locking players out and that is […]
Game three of the 2019-2020 Liga Mexicana del Pacífico finals was an important contest for Venados de Mazatlán. This is true, of course, of every game in the LMP finals, but staring down a possible 0-3 deficit to a seemingly dominant Tomateros de Culiacán squad made the game that much more important. Win, and the […]
Over the past couple of weeks, the debate over who should be the National League Rookie of the Year has intensified. At least it has among San Diego Padres and New York Mets fans. The national beat hasn’t picked up on this debate all that much. If anything they are framing the race as already […]
Sports Illustrated – Stephanie Apstein: There were a lot of moving parts to the San Diego Padres finally signing Manny Machado. Now that the deal is done there are less moving parts and things have become much clearer. One thing that has crystallized, the Padres knew who they were getting and already understand the ways […]
We are nearing the finish line of another arduous Major League Baseball offseason and it is more apparent than ever that ownership across the board is terrible. The way the Chicago Cubs are handling the Addison Russell situation. How every team is operating through collusive means to drive down free agent contracts. Teams selling off […]