Slightly Better than Replacement Level
Leave it to Major League Baseball to cause me to take a break from school and write about unaffiliated baseball again. Whenever MLB involves themselves with the Negro Leagues in any fashion, I am interested in some way. When it’s the Negro major leagues that MLB is specifically getting involved with then my brow is […]
A few weeks back Baseball Reference unveiled their newest invention, Stathead. This will be replacing Play Index as the site’s premier search engine. Almost unanimously this news was met with welcome arms. This is understandable, but all the same, I think there is one key area where Stahead comes up woefully short; Negro Leagues integration. […]
Daniel R. Epstein – Baseball FYI: Baseball Reference is a great hub for baseball information. For a long time, there has been one glaring omission from their Play Index feature, the ability to search for Negro major league results right alongside their white counterparts. I was hopeful that Play Index’s successor, Stathead, would rectify this […]
Jonathan Judge & Sean O’Rourke – Baseball Prospectus ($): Defensive metrics are notoriously dicey. There are lots of defensive stats to choose from and for the longest time, I’ve used a hodgepodge approach when it comes to including specific defensive stats in my arguments and articles. I always assumed that I was making bad arguments […]
Russell A. Carleton – Baseball Prospectus ($): Wins Above Replacement is a great statistic. I use WAR, in all its permutations, quite often and will continue to use it in my baseball writing moving forward. However, WAR, no matter the version, is not a conversation ender as far as statistics go. A baseball player isn’t […]