Slightly Better than Replacement Level
At just thirty-two years old it’s hard to think of Chiang Chih-Hsien as an older player but that’s exactly what he is now. That doesn’t mean he’s not good, though he clearly has clearly regressed hard in one specific area that we will get to a little later. Overall though, Chih-Hsien may be a few […]
Last year this site wrote about José Miguel Fernández and his great season for the Doosan Bears. Fast forward to the newly minted 2020 Korea Baseball organization season and Fernández is once again a topic of discussion for the site. The former Major League Baseball prospect is tearing up KBO pitching in both familiar and […]
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 […]