Slightly Better than Replacement Level
Those of us who have been covering and following the Chinese Professional Baseball League for some time now like to refer to the league as our hidden sports league. The reason being that among larger professional baseball leagues the CPBL has remained somewhat forgotten even for those who cover unaffiliated leagues. The lone exception to […]
No matter the professional baseball league in question, the issue of money is impossible to escape. This site doesn’t write about the financial side of unaffiliated baseball as much because for most leagues the money side of things isn’t as in your face as in affiliated baseball. Reading up on the latest Major League Baseball […]
Dixon Machado is all the talk of the current Korea Baseball Organization season. When you start the season slashing .389/.450/.889 and put together a WRC+ of 230 the talk is warranted. It would be easy to look at what Machado has done so far this season and declare it an aberration. His best WRC+ prior […]
The Uni-President 7-Eleven Lions signed SP-L Logan Darnell to an unknown contract Of the four, soon to be five, teams that make up the Chinese Professional Baseball League, perhaps none is as vexing as the Uni-President 7-Eleven Lions. The Fubon Guardians come close, but they are vexing for an inability to gel as a team […]
We all want to make money, we live in a world where we need to make money. Most people who write about baseball want to monetize their efforts in some way. That doesn’t mean they are greedy or trying to bilk people out of their hard-earned cash. In the past, I’ve been fond of telling […]