Slightly Better than Replacement Level
If there’s one thing this website needs, it’s yet another column. Listen, I like to categorize things, I’m a big fan of things being neat and tidy. Hence this website having so many columns despite them all being written by myself and two other people. Anyways, my latest idea was for an occasional column detailing […]
There are a lot of unaffiliated leagues the world over. I can’t possibly watch them all, though I try my best to give each and every one of them their fair shake. The end result of me covering so much of the unaffiliated baseball world (to toot my own horn I’m the only person covering […]
Not a single soul among those who follow Taiwan’s Chinese Professional Baseball League are interested in hearing the pained moans of a Rakuten Monkeys fan. After a decade of absolute dominance as the Lamigo Monkeys, the team that is lovingly known as the Peach Apes fell on hard times over the last season and a […]
A consistent point I’ve encountered from baseball historians is that the decline of Cuba as a baseball powerhouse started in or around 1962. There is a clear reason for this time frame, on February 7, 1962, the United States enacted its full embargo against the island country of Cuba. By barring the export of any […]
On May 21, 2021, Josh Sale signed a contract with the Gastonia Honey Hunters. There was no fanfare for this signing, in fact, the great majority did not care. It wasn’t that the Honey Hunters are an Atlantic League team. Rather, it was that Sale had been out of baseball long enough that he was […]