Slightly Better than Replacement Level
Baseball Prospectus has a feature they do whenever important trades or signings go down. For years I’ve used their Transaction Analysis articles as a quick way to get the lowdown on the who, what, where, and when of a free agent signing or trade. They do this for affiliated baseball and having written a few […]
There aren’t legitimate levels to the various unaffiliated leagues like there are for Minor League Baseball. However, that doesn’t mean that there isn’t a general consensus on where unaffiliated leagues would fall on such a level system. There are a few leagues at the very top, right below major league level but clearly better than […]
The past couple of days I have watched games from Taiwan, Panama, Australia, the Dominican Republic, Mexico, and more. Sometimes I watched whole games, other times I caught a few innings or just an at-bat or two. I watched though, and the reason I watched is that I love baseball. It took me a long […]
Last week’s Liga de Béisbol Profesional Roberto Clemente semifinals featured a couple of blowouts that saw Gigantes de Carolina move past Cangrejeros de Santurce and Criollos de Caguas send Indios de Mayagüez home. LBPRC Wild CardLBPRC Semifinals Caguas and Carolina square off in the championship game with the winner of that moving on to the […]
The Negro major leagues never played league schedules as long as what the recognized white major leagues played during the time before integration. This isn’t a bad thing, it just displays how the Negro major leagues operated differently than the white major leagues did. Usually, teams from the Negro major leagues would play longer schedules […]