Baseball Prospectus: The Essential Guide to the 2008 Baseball Season by Steven Goldman, Christina Kahrl (Editor)

From the Publisher

The New York Times bestselling guide to major league baseball returns for the 2008 season

For over a decade, Baseball Prospectus has been the ultimate guide to the game for fantasy players, professionals, and casual fans alike. Baseball Prospectus 2008 continues that tradition, bringing together the top young baseball writers and analysts in the business to provide a definitive look at the season to come. Featuring groundbreaking essays on the performance of each of the thirty teams and an in-depth look at every major league player and all the top prospects, Baseball Prospectus 2008 offers the cutting-edge analysis that has inspired nearly every major league team to seek the advice of current or former Prospectus writers. Also included are projections of player stats for next year, as determined by the groundbreaking PECOTA system, which Sports Illustrated has called "perhaps the game's most accurate projection model." The most authoritative and entertaining book of its kind, Baseball Prospectus 2008 is as essential to the baseball-watching experience as hot dogs and cold beer.

Sports Illustrated

The book brims with obscure stats but offers plenty for right-brain fans too. The result is a rich snapshot of where the game and its reference books are today and where they are going.

What People Are Saying

Michael Lewis
If a general manager hasn't read Baseball Prospectus, he should be fired for incompetence.

Mark Shapiro
Baseball Prospectus continues to raise the bar for innovative baseball analysis every year.

Rob Neyer
The best book of its kind. When I have a question about a player, no matter how obscure, I pull out Baseball Prospectus.

Jayson Stark
I never cease to be blown away by how the geniuses at Baseball Prospectus can provide you with new insights into players and teams you thought you couldn't possibly have followed more closely. They're amazing.

Product Details

• ISBN: 0452289033
  
• ISBN-13: 9780452289031
• Format: Paperback, 624pp
• Publisher: Penguin Group (USA)
• Pub. Date: February 2008
• Sales Rank: 129,148
• Series: Baseball Prospectus Ser.