Value Over Replacement

by Ruben Grijalva

Edgerton New Play Award Winner, O’Neill National Playwrights Conference Finalist, Bay Area Playwrights Festival Semi-Finalist

At five-foot-seven, one-hundred-sixty pounds, light-hitting shortstop turned drive-time sports radio host Edward “Chip” Fuller is hardly the poster-boy for baseball’s steroid era. But when he learns his name will appear on a list of players linked to performance enhancing drugs, Chip is...

Edgerton New Play Award Winner, O’Neill National Playwrights Conference Finalist, Bay Area Playwrights Festival Semi-Finalist

At five-foot-seven, one-hundred-sixty pounds, light-hitting shortstop turned drive-time sports radio host Edward “Chip” Fuller is hardly the poster-boy for baseball’s steroid era. But when he learns his name will appear on a list of players linked to performance enhancing drugs, Chip is forced to explain his choice to colleagues, his listeners, and his family. In doing so, he must choose between a bland public apology and a much more difficult confession: that if he had it to do over again, he wouldn't change a thing.

A note on the title: Value Over Replacement Player is a complex baseball statistic that measures a player’s performance relative to an imagined “replacement player,” who is an average fielder and slightly below average hitter.

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  • Eugene O'Neill Theater Center: Value Over Replacement

    It is the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center's pleasure to recommend Ruben Grijalva and his play Value Over Replacement as a finalist for our 2015 National Playwrights Conference. The play rose through a competitive, anonymous, multileveled selection process that took nearly nine months to execute. As one of 59 finalists out of more than 1,300 submissions, it is the value of the page that has allowed this work to prosper in such a competitive selection process.Our readers especially appreciated the complexity of the writing, the strength of the structure, and the authenticity of the questions being...

    It is the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center's pleasure to recommend Ruben Grijalva and his play Value Over Replacement as a finalist for our 2015 National Playwrights Conference. The play rose through a competitive, anonymous, multileveled selection process that took nearly nine months to execute. As one of 59 finalists out of more than 1,300 submissions, it is the value of the page that has allowed this work to prosper in such a competitive selection process.Our readers especially appreciated the complexity of the writing, the strength of the structure, and the authenticity of the questions being asked.

Development History

Production History

  • Type Workshop, Organization PlayGround Festival of New Works, Year 2016

Awards

  • Edgerton New Play Award
    Edgerton Foundation
    Winner
    2016
  • Bay Area Playwrights Festival
    Playwrights Foundation
    Semi-Finalist
    2015