Slightly Better than Replacement Level
Some great players have amazing careers that everyone is well aware of. Then there are players who have long careers that have ups and downs but overall end up being really great. We tend to write a lot about the players with amazing careers. Those with longer careers but lower peaks don’t warrant as much […]
Sometimes we don’t appreciate what we have even when it’s right in front of us. Despite Julio Franco having a long Major League Baseball career and the majority of that career taking place during my formative baseball watching years I never realized how great of a player he actually was. It wasn’t until recently that […]
Typically this column is used to write about players who made a huge impact on the game. That impact just happened to be outside the walls of Major League Baseball. There are plenty of amazing players with amazing careers that I still need to get to, and I will. However, the under the dashboard purpose […]
I’m not going to try and lie and act like I was acutely aware of who Juan Pizarro was prior to his passing a couple of weeks back. In all my various baseball research I had never stumbled across his name as more than a passing oddity. Even then I can’t say with one hundred […]
Nelson Figueroa’s Major League Baseball career was long, but not exactly noteworthy. He spent nine seasons in MLB and by the time he was finished had amassed a career 92 ERA+ and 2.7 rWAR. Like I said, not exactly noteworthy, but Figueroa’s professional baseball career did not begin in 2000 and it did not end […]