Slightly Better than Replacement Level
The Orix Buffaloes signed CF-R Adam Jones to a two-year, $8.8 million contract There’s not much I can tell you about Adam Jones that you don’t already know. This is the same Adam Jones of Baltimore Orioles and 2017 World Baseball Classic fame. He’s heading to Orix and the Pacific League to prove he’s still […]
As much as I love Baseball Reference, there are massive gaps in what they cover. For instance if you were to search Mike Loree and look at his career you would think that he has been out of baseball since a subpar 2012 with the Atlantic League’s Long Island Ducks. Most wouldn’t give that fact […]
The Milwaukee Milkmen signed RP-R Spencer Backstrom to an unknown contract Building a bullpen in an unaffiliated league (specifically in the North American independents) is not an easy task. The majority of players who end up in the bullpen of an unaffiliated squad are either a failed starter or reliever. The keyword in that sentence […]
The name Victor Starrfin doesn’t appear in a search of any of the main baseball stat sites. It’s not a name that is well known, anywhere really. Heck, I’m someone who likes to consider himself a student of the game of baseball and when I stumbled across Starrfin’s name while researching another project I had […]
Pericos de Puebla signed 1B/2B/3B-R José Sermo to an unknown contract A few weeks back I had a write-up for Keon Barnum to the Pericos all ready to be published. Hours before it was scheduled to go live Barnum signed a minor league deal with the Washington Nationals. That was a pretty big loss for […]