Slightly Better than Replacement Level
The crack of the bat minus the sound of the crowd. It’s something most of us have never experienced. Even in struggling leagues with franchises near death, there are some fans in attendance. They still make noise, not as much as in a packed house, but the noise is still there. We hear bat make […]
The Uni-President 7-Eleven Lions signed SP-R Pan Wei-Lun to a 2 year, $404,000 contract The Transaction Analysis articles are typically reserved for new signings. Extensions don’t interest me much because it’s more of a dollars and cents situation rather than a “here’s this player who will help our team get better” sort of thing. I’ve […]
This site has always been very forthright in the way that it views baseball. Part of our approach to the game of baseball has been to distinguish that baseball is a sperate term from Major League Baseball. This may seem like a small nit to pick, but it really is a big deal when one […]
It’s too early in the season for advanced stats to have any sort of meaning. Six games are nowhere near large enough of a sample size for us to look to WRC+ or wOBA or any of the other advanced metrics we regularly use to better breakdown Chinese Professional Baseball League players. We do have […]
Jonathan Judge & Sean O’Rourke – Baseball Prospectus ($): Defensive metrics are notoriously dicey. There are lots of defensive stats to choose from and for the longest time, I’ve used a hodgepodge approach when it comes to including specific defensive stats in my arguments and articles. I always assumed that I was making bad arguments […]