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Baseball Prospectus 2009: The Essential Guide to the 2009 Baseball Season
by Plume (Paperback) (Release Date: 2009-02-16)

The 2009 edition of the New York Times bestselling guide to major league baseball that is simply “the best book of its kind” (Rob Neyer) Now in its fourteenth edition, the Baseball Prospectus annual is the industry leader among annual baseball guides and the rightful successor to Bill James’s legendary bestselling Baseball Abstracts. The 2009 edition contains critical essays on each of the thirty teams and player comments for some sixty players for each of those teams. Each player’s statistics are projected for the coming season using the groundbreaking PECOTA projection system, called “perhaps the game’s most accurate projection model” (Sports Illustrated). Baseball Prospectus 2009 also contains cutting-edge essays on performance analysis, the likes of which have inspired twenty-nine of the thirty major league teams to hire current and former Baseball Prospectus writers and analysts as consultants. The baseball bible for fantasy players and devoted fans, Baseball ...

Bill James
Bill James Handbook 2009
by ACTA Publications (Paperback)

Every year, thousands of avid baseball fans eagerly await The Bill James Handbook the best and most complete annual baseball guide available. Full of exclusive stats, this book is the most comprehensive resource of every hit, pitch and catch in Major League Baseball's 2008 season.Key features include: Exclusive! Fielding Bible AwardsNew Relief PitchingManufactured Runs AnalysisYoung Talent InventoryManager's RecordBaserunning AnalysisCareer data for every 2008 major leaguer (and a few bonus players) with more statistical categories than any other bookPitcher Projections Hitter Projections Team Efficiency Summary Player Win Shares

The Editors of Baseball America
Baseball America 2009 Prospect Handbook: The Comprehensive Guide to Rising Stars from the Definitive Source on Prospects (Baseball America Prospect Handbook)
by Baseball America (Paperback)

The Baseball America 2009 Prospect Handbook is the leading annual reference guide to the next generation of rising stars.  The Prospect Handbook profiles in-depth analysis and statistics of 900 players, provides a detailed amateur draft report card, a list of the top one hundred prospects, and a ranking of the Major League Baseball player development programs.  The Prospect Handbook is the resource for information regarding the leading minor leaguers throughout baseball and is a valuable tool for fans, fantasy leaguers, and anyone who wants to know more about the player development process.

The Hardball Times Writers
The Hardball Times Baseball Annual 2009
by ACTA Publications (Paperback)

Celebrating its fifth year in production, The Hardball Times Baseball Annual 2009 compiles some of the best analytical and historical writing on baseball with unique and innovative statistics into a timeless annual guide. This comprehensive book covers the entire 2008 season from the first pitch to the last out, and it is also the first book of its kind to include a review of the postseason and World Series. With guest writers like Rob Neyer, John Dewan, Richard Lederer and Tom Tango, and articles on hot topics like "GM in a Box: Pat Gillick," predicting rookie performance, and a look at the "Pete Rose" class of free agents, The Hardball Times Baseball Annual is a resource you will pick up again and again.

Zack Hample
Watching Baseball Smarter: A Professional Fan's Guide for Beginners, Semi-experts, and Deeply Serious Geeks
by Vintage (Paperback) (Release Date: 2007-03-27)

Whether you’re a major league couch potato, life-long season ticket-holder, or teaching game to a beginner, Watching Baseball Smarter leaves no territory uncovered. In this smart and funny fan’s guide Hample explains the ins and outs of pitching, hitting, running, and fielding, while offering insider trivia and anecdotes that will surprise even the most informed viewers of our national pastime.What is the difference between a slider and a curveball?At which stadium did “The Wave” first make an appearance? How do some hitters use iPods to improve their skills?Which positions are never played by lefties?Why do some players urinate on their hands?Combining the narrative voice and attitude of Michael Lewis with the compulsive brilliance of Schott’s Miscellany, Watching Baseball Smarter will increase your understanding and enjoyment of the sport–no matter what your level of expertise. Zack Hample is an obsessed fan and a regular writer for minorleaguebaseball.com. He's ...

Tom M. Tango, Mitchel Lichtman, Andrew Dolphin
The Book: Playing the Percentages in Baseball
by Potomac Books Inc. (Paperback)

Written by three esteemed baseball statisticians, The Book continues where the legendary Bill James's Baseball Abstracts and Palmer and Thorn's The Hidden Game of Baseball left off more than twenty years ago. Continuing in the grand tradition of sabermetrics, the authors provide a revolutionary way to think about baseball with principles that can be applied at every level, from high school to the major leagues. Tom Tango, Mitchel Lichtman, and Andrew Dolphin cover topics such as batting and pitching matchups, platooning, the benefits and risks of intentional walks and sacrifices, the legitimacy of alleged "clutch" hitters, and many of baseball's other theories on hitting, fielding, pitching, and even baserunning. They analyze when a strategy is a good idea and when it's a bad idea, and how to more closely watch the "inside" game of baseball. Whenever you hear an announcer talk about the "unwritten rule" or say that so-and-so is going "by the book" ...

The Editors of Baseball America
Baseball America 2009 Almanac: A Comprehensive Review of the 2008 Season (Baseball America Almanac)
by Baseball America (Paperback)

Baseball America's 2009 Almanac offers a complete recap of the 2008 baseball season from the World Series to the major, minor, college, high school, independent, and amateur leagues.  The Almanac has organization, team, and player statistics and season reviews covering all of professional, amateur, and youth baseball.  It is also the only volume to feature in-depth coverage of the annual draft of players at all levels. 

The ESPN Baseball Encyclopedia, Fifth Edition (Espn Baseball Encyclopedia)
by Sterling (Paperback)

From the sports experts at ESPN comes the most informative baseball compilation ever created—and the next best thing to watching the home team win!  “I want a bumper sticker: You can have my Baseball Encyclopedia when you tear it from my cold, dead hands.”  —Bill James, author of the Historical Baseball Abstract “Baseball fans haven’t been able to get this much for so little since baseball cards were a quarter a pack.”  —Mat Olkin, writer and editor for USA Today and Sports Weekly A baseball lover’s ultimate guide, based on a remarkable database compiled by the award-winning godfather of statistical baseball analysis, Pete Palmer, and edited by baseball historian and commentator Gary Gillette. Featuring totally revised and up-to-date statistics, this all-star encyclopedia presents the most complete and accurate portrait of the game of baseball ever compiled. Brought to fans at an unbeatable price, it’s brimming with illuminating essays and information. ...

The Baseball Prospectus Team of Experts
Baseball Between the Numbers: Why Everything You Know About the Game Is Wrong
by Basic Books (Paperback)

For baseball fans young, old, and in between, the ultimate guide to the new statistical thinking that's revolutionizing the game. The revolution in baseball statistics that began in the 1970s is a controversial subject that professionals and fans alike argue over without end. Despite this fundamental change in the way we watch and understand the sport, until now no one had written the book that reveals, across every area of strategy and management, how the best practitioners of statistical analysis in baseball think about numbers and the game. Baseball Between the Numbers is that book. In separate chapters covering every aspect of the game, the experts at the Baseball Prospectus examine the subtle, hidden aspects of baseball, bring them out into the open, and show us how our favorite teams could win more games. This is a book that every fan, every follower of sports radio, every fantasy player, every coach, and every player at every level can enjoy ...

John Burnson
Graphical Player 2009
by ACTA Publications (Paperback)

Congratulations to John Burnson and his team of writers,champions of the CBS Sportsline Fantasy League of Experts.For decades, baseball statistical analysis has been limited to long, hard-to-follow columns of numbers, leaving bewildered readers to pick out the trends. But the sixth edition of Graphical Player presents the information you need in the simplest and most natural way: visually. With its revolutionary, at-a-glance dashboards, the Graphical Player makes it easy to see who s moving up, who s moving down, and who s moving out.John Burnson and his crew from Heater magazine won the 2008 CBS Sportsline Fantasy League of Experts a head-to-head points league that includes twelve of thebiggest names in baseball analysis, such as ESPN, Sporting News, and RotoWorld. Now John Burnson and the Heater team turn their expertise to giving readers the big picture to help them rule over their own leagues.Graphical Player includes profiles for 900 ballplayers from both the majors and the ...

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