Slightly Better than Replacement Level
Spring Marie Cullen – Baseball Prospectus ($): I grew up playing baseball, and I faced some hazing thanks to being a bigger kid. Any hazing or hard times I ever received paled in comparison next to the grief given to the few girls I played with. It didn’t matter how good they were or how […]
Hannah Keyser – Yahoo! Sports: The Tampa Bay Rays are a good baseball franchise. The Rays have proven themselves to be great at developing prospects and getting the most out of players who floundered with other teams. They win, even when it seems like they shouldn’t win, and they have limited the years in which […]
Daniel R. Epstein – Beyond the Box Score: Women play baseball, that is a simple fact. They play in the amateur ranks and they play professionally, both in their own leagues and in leagues with men. There’s no reason that women playing baseball shouldn’t get more attention, but ultimately the women who do play get […]
Baseball Prospectus – Craig Goldstein ($): Baseball executives love to talk about financial flexibility. They peddle that term as if it means they are positioning themselves to spend big money when it counts. As these past two offseasons have shown that isn’t the case. Financial flexibility simply means saving as much money as a team […]
The Undefeated – Rhiannon Walker: There are not enough minority managers in affiliated baseball. It’s far too easy to lose sight of this problem with the ongoing labor strife that dominates Major League Baseball discussions and the accompanying problem of fair pay for players in Minor League Baseball. Those issues aren’t going away, but neither […]