minor-league
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At first blush, his lifetime Wins Above Replacement of 0.3 would indicate that he’s little better than the fictional minor league “replacement player” to which MLB players are compared in calculating the statistic.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 3, 2026
“He brings with him, like, a two-inch folder stuffed with handwritten stock reports he had written on minor league bus trips,” Houston said.
From Los Angeles Times • May 17, 2026
Former Dodgers pitcher Trevor Bauer offers to sign a minor league contract with a ‘$0 salary’ with any MLB team, saying that clubs would face no financial risk.
From Los Angeles Times • May 8, 2026
He has made 133 major league starts and 130 minor league starts, but he never has pitched a complete game.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 23, 2026
He found a job working twenty to thirty hours per week, earning $8.50 an hour, for the Salt Lake Bees, a minor league baseball team.
From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel
