Slightly Better than Replacement Level
I was driving the other day, I do a lot of driving during the week for many reasons, and boring my fiancée with some sort of baseball talk. At one point we were talking about the various professional stadiums we’ve seen a game at together. At some point, I’ll probably start a running list on […]
A couple of months back I wrote about the turmoil present in Serie del Caribe. Specifically, the issue at hand was the statements of Juan Francisco Puello, President of Confederación de Béisbol Profesional del Caribe. As the President of the SDC’s governing body, he had talked about wanting to increase the number of teams participating […]
When people hear 868 home runs they know that the subject at hand is Sadaharu Oh and his all-time professional home run record. It’s always struck me as a bit sad that we limit Oh to only 868 home runs, he did after all hit many more home runs in the Central League playoffs and […]
If you had told me a few years ago that I would be spending an hour poring over the Liga Colombiana de Béisbol Profesional website so I could scan through box scores and get accurate stats for a player I’d have called you crazy. Fast forward to the present and I’m finally able to write […]
A few years back I started a, now abandoned project, of calculating the true win-loss records of every team to ever play professional baseball. My methodology was to go league-by-league and in every season in a given league add in the playoff results to the regular season results. Once that was finished, presto, I could […]