Slightly Better than Replacement Level
I keep a notepad with story ideas for this website. It’s quite long and I’m always adding ideas to the notepad. I know that I likely won’t get to every idea, but if I have a decent idea I want to make sure it’s jotted down so that I don’t forget. Some ideas stick around […]
Lately, I find myself thinking about the idea of entertainment a fair amount. It was inevitable given the current worldwide climate and the way my mind works. Entertainment is, after all, an escape, but what good is the entertainment if it doesn’t offer any sort of escape after all? That’s where I find myself with […]
I’ve often wanted to write about Dennis Sarfate, but the time has never been quite right. I wasn’t writing about baseball during his affiliated years, nor had I switched to mainly covering unaffiliated baseball when he finally found success in Nippon Professional Baseball. Once I realized that players like Sarfate were the ones I wanted […]
In the back of my head, there is one nagging thought that I can’t move past. This thought permeates all my discussions of baseball. There’s no way I can escape this thought, no matter of baseball in which I don’t feel it is prescient. I’ve tried, but no matter how I approach it or how […]
Yaquis de Obregón traded 1B/RF-R Xavier Scruggs to Mayos de Navojoa for CF/LF-R Alonzo Harris For Obregón this move is simple on the surface but more complicated the deeper you dig. It’s a flashy move if the entirety of Harris’ career is taken into account, but far less so when only his Liga Mexicana del […]