We’re just over a quarter of the way into the 2016 MLB season, and the statistics have begun to settle down. Mike Trout leads all hitters in wins above replacement, and Clayton Kershaw dominates nearly every conceivable pitching metric by a healthy margin. As predicted, the Chicago Cubs are the best team in the league, […]
We’re just over a quarter of the way into the 2016 MLB season, and the statistics have begun to settle down. Mike Trout leads all hitters in wins above replacement, and Clayton Kershaw dominates nearly every conceivable pitching metric by a healthy margin. As predicted, the Chicago Cubs are the best team in the league, […]
Step aside, ads for daily fantasy and erectile dysfunction: The 2016 baseball season has added another marketing campaign to the pantheon of pervasive (and widely loathed) sports promotions. Major League Baseball has rebranded grand slams as “Papa Slams” across all of its properties, issuing ad infinitum the accompanying promise that every grand slam will yield […]
Step aside, ads for daily fantasy and erectile dysfunction: The 2016 baseball season has added another marketing campaign to the pantheon of pervasive (and widely loathed) sports promotions. Major League Baseball has rebranded grand slams as “Papa Slams” across all of its properties, issuing ad infinitum the accompanying promise that every grand slam will yield […]
Some people daydream about becoming professional baseball players. Ben Lindbergh and Sam Miller daydream about being general managers. The two co-host the “Effectively Wild” podcast for Baseball Prospectus (Ben is also a writer for this site), and last summer they learned that one of their listeners was the media relations director for the Sonoma Stompers, […]
