Baseball Prospectus 2006: Statistics, Analysis, and Insight for the Information Age by Prospectus Team, Steven Goldman (Editor), Christina Kahrl (Editor)

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    • Pub. Date: February 2006
    • Publisher: Workman Publishing Company, Inc.
    • Format: Paperback, 576pp

    Synopsis

    Fans and fantasy league players, get your inside intelligence from the same source as many Major League front offices—BASEBALL PROSPECTUS.BASEBALL PROSPECTUS 2006 provides unprecedented original performance analysis of over 1,600 players, from stars at the top of their game to prospects vying for Rookie of the Year. It offers:


      • In-depth, insightful essays on all 30 Major League Baseball clubs, with no-holds-barred evaluations of at least 50 players per organization
      • Baseball Prospectus’s exclusive (and deadly accurate) PECOTA projection system, forecasting the chances that a player will break out,
      improve, or collapse
      • In-depth features on the true costs of injuries, adventures in win expectancy, the limitations of statistical analysis—plus all our stats
      explained!

    The Baseball Prospectus team of cutting-edge analysts includes Mark Armour, Andrew Baharlias, Jim Baker, James Click, Clifford J. Corcoran, Clay Davenport, John Erhardt, Gary Gillette, Steven Goldman, Thomas Gorman, Gary Huckabay, Jay Jaffe, Rany Jazayerli, Christina Kahrl, Jonah Keri, Mark McClusky, Dave Pease, Dayn Perry, Nate Silver, and Keith Woolner.

    Check out baseballprospectus.com for year-round baseball coverage.

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    "Americans love traditions and rituals and statistics that are meaningful and easily grasped, and baseball is full of them." This insightful observation from David Lamb's Stolen Season: A Journey Through America and Basebal's Minor Leagues makes plain that information must be capable of being understood. This latest baseball compendium of fact and fanciful observations, of witty and whimsical data, permits the casual crank and the fanatical fan to enhance their enjoyment of our national pastime. As is clear from the title, this book is for predicting success in the current season. Player and team prospects are analyzed by means of a statistical chart that is unrivaled. Not only can you discover everything that could possibly be advanced about Julio Franco's amazing productivity at age 47 or 20-year-old Felix Hernandez's precocious pitching, you may also discover the strengths and weaknesses of every big leaguer as compared with three other players (past and present), a feature that invites controversy and commendation. Thus, Kenny Lofton is compared with Brett Butler, Lou Brock, and Bill Bruton; Richie Sexson is compared with Jim Thome, Boog Powell, and Greg Luzinski. This is an outstanding addition to any general library.-Gilles Renaud, Ontario Court of Justice, Cornwall Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.

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    Biography

    Baseball Prospectus Team of Experts on Baseball Talent includes, among others, Gary Huckabay, the founder of Baseball Prospectus; Chris Kahrl, a sports editor who lives in Washington, D.C.; and Dave Pease, who roots for Ryan Klesko in San Diego. Together, the roster of Baseball Prospectus writers consult to 26 of the 30 major league baseball teams.

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    March 05, 2006: Once again, an informative and entertaining tool for the avid baseball fan. Once again, a tool that will be more rewarding to those who devote the time and effort to understand some of the specific jargon and instruments that the Baseball Prospectus folks use. In the 2006 edition we see that some of the inventors of these tools have been hard at work improving them (see Davenport, Silver, Woolner chapter), and we are shown excellent examples of the differences that some of the technical changes make, especially in the forecasts of young players and prospects (see chapter by Silver on PECOTA). Of course, in the area of forecasts, the real proof is in the pudding: does the updated PECOTA, for example, do a better job not only than the old PECOTA but also better than forecasts and projections by other outfits using different methods? This year?s annual has responded to some of the complaints by readers in previous years: for example, it provides 2006 forecasts in certain statistical categories that the fantasy baseball player demands (e.g., RBI?s, Wins), and the book explains why these stats require a different approach from some of the ?pure ability? stats that BP has historically focused on. Along with an informative set of essays on every team?s past year and current prospects, the annual provides forecasts and commentary on 1600 individual players and prospects, updated as of January 2006 (later updates to account for injuries and lineup changes are available for a registration fee on the BP website). And last but not least, we have a few original essays and analyses: on statistics vs. scouting (Huckabay), ?win expectancy? (Woolner), and the business of baseball (Bahrlias). All in all, this book demonstrates what BP does best -- analysis -- while also being a terrific guide and look-up reference for those of us who are mainly just fans or interested in playing the game in our fantasies.