Slightly Better than Replacement Level
Ronald Guzmán has spent the first eight seasons of his professional baseball career not quite living up to expectations. Sure, there were a few good seasons in the mix, but for the most part, he never took that leap that his raw ability and natural baseball intelligence suggested he should. He rode his natural ability […]
Game five of the Liga Mexicana del Pacífico finals, top of the eighth inning, Naranjeros de Hermosillo and Tomateros de Culiacán knotted at three runs a piece, runners on first and third, one out, Hermosillo is leading the series three games to one, and perennial all-star Victor Mendoza is up to bat. It is in […]
A couple of months removed from Major League Baseball’s restructuring of Minor League Baseball the dust has somewhat started to settle. MLB itself has laid bare what the minors are going to look like moving forward. Meanwhile, unaffiliated leagues throughout America have started accepting new member clubs and forming the blueprints for how their leagues […]
Initially, my inclination was to write a Transaction Analysis for Rusney Castillo signing with the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles. It is, after all, a rather important signing based on Castillo’s pedigree and his status as a Cuban who has not repatriated. For many of the usual reasons the Eagles signing of Castillo is news worth […]
If someone approached you with a stat line that read, “.285/.337/.373 with 737 hits, a career 87 OPS+ and 4.6 rWAR” you probably wouldn’t think much of the guy in question. That’s the reaction I would expect from most folks if they were told Jigger Statz’s Major League Baseball stats line. It’s both unimpressive and […]