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Baseball Prospectus 2009: The Essential Guide to the 2009 Baseball Season (Baseball Prospectus)
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 cri...more
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 cri...more
Paperback, 624 pages
Published
February 16th 2009
by Plume
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Following my own tradition, I read this nearly cover to cover overnight as soon as I bought it.
As a rabid Rays fan, I was mildly amused last year when Nate Silver and the folks at BP predicted around 88 wins for my boys, and then shocked when they were nearly exactly right. Two years ago they predicted that this Ryan Braun fella was going to be huge; he was, and he is.
It's relatively easy, though, to point out that a rookie who everyone knows is good is good. It's not e...more
As a rabid Rays fan, I was mildly amused last year when Nate Silver and the folks at BP predicted around 88 wins for my boys, and then shocked when they were nearly exactly right. Two years ago they predicted that this Ryan Braun fella was going to be huge; he was, and he is.
It's relatively easy, though, to point out that a rookie who everyone knows is good is good. It's not e...more
Baseball Prospectus has become one of those annual publications that comes out before the baseball season starts that helps give fans some perspective on the forthcoming season.
Data freaks will love the statistics developed by the folks at Baseball Prospectus. Readers must digest the different key statistics (such as VORP and PECOTA). So, be sure to read pages vii to xvi carefully. These pages explain the variety of statistics that have been developed for pitchers and everyday playe...more
Data freaks will love the statistics developed by the folks at Baseball Prospectus. Readers must digest the different key statistics (such as VORP and PECOTA). So, be sure to read pages vii to xvi carefully. These pages explain the variety of statistics that have been developed for pitchers and everyday playe...more
The stand-alone essays are not as interesting as in the old annual Bill James Baseball Abstract, publication of which was an extra national holiday for me in the mid-80's, but the player and team comments are informative and entertaining. As my attention span has diminished over the decades, I now find it preferable to read statistically-informed analysis of baseball than to watch actual baseball games in real time.
I read these '09 season predictions with the '09 season nearly one...more
I read these '09 season predictions with the '09 season nearly one...more
There's not really a lot to review, here. Frankly, reading this book requires a degree of obsessiveness about baseball that not many people possess, especially outside of fantasy leagues.
Fortunately, I possess that degree of obsessiveness.
So, what do you get? Essay reviews of every organization, enjoyably snarky forecasts for the players you're likely to see this year, and a whole raft of projections and player comparisons (because who DOESN'T want to know that their favo...more
Fortunately, I possess that degree of obsessiveness.
So, what do you get? Essay reviews of every organization, enjoyably snarky forecasts for the players you're likely to see this year, and a whole raft of projections and player comparisons (because who DOESN'T want to know that their favo...more
Yeah, it's the Prospectus. It's good for you if you like baseball; it makes things like spring training and the WBC more interesting because you know who you should keep an eye on. The comments for the players tend to be quite pithy. Took me too long to read it this year, but hey, needs must and that's no fault of the book.
Definitely not recommended if you don't care a lick about baseball, but if you think you'd like to know more about the numbers behind the game and the people wh...more
Definitely not recommended if you don't care a lick about baseball, but if you think you'd like to know more about the numbers behind the game and the people wh...more
The best reference out there for descriptions/projections of MLB team and player performance. I take it with me down to spring training, and carry it in my satchel throughout the season.
With it and the similarly annual Bill James Guide, you can review the careers and projected trajectories of every player who played in the league last season or is likely to this season.
With it and the similarly annual Bill James Guide, you can review the careers and projected trajectories of every player who played in the league last season or is likely to this season.
I've bought every Prospectus since 06, and this was/is my favorite for two reasons. 1)The lads have matured a bit, and the mean-spirited player blurbs are fewer this year than in the past, and 2)they got it out in February, before my fantasy draft.
I'll probably be carrying this around with me from room to room for the next half a year.
Update: Obviously I'm not "done", but I've read the articles and played with it enough. The only thing of note to long-time BP fans is the change in WARP.
That's officially the nerdiest thing I've ever written.
Update: Obviously I'm not "done", but I've read the articles and played with it enough. The only thing of note to long-time BP fans is the change in WARP.
That's officially the nerdiest thing I've ever written.
It's less snarky than last year's and there are less essays than usual. Whatever, it's a BP annual; you're reading it for the projections, right? Right?
Yes...I read this cover to cover. It isn't because Nate Silver knew the Rays were good this time last year (or that Barack would win NC). The book is ha ha funny if you dig sport. I'm not sure which BP snark was my favorite but I'm not ashamed to admit that I probably don't enjoy reading anything more than Baseball Prospectus.
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Baseball, math, and the wit of Nathan Silver. Golden.
Very good, none better. Extremely useful for playin OOTP>
The usual great contribution.
Not as good as previous years. Player descriptions are falling into repetitive patterns and the horn-tooting on Pecota's successes and forgetting about the failures is getting kind of annoying and I agree with these guys, for the most part.
Yep, I'm a baseball junkie what can I say.
If you see beauty in the numbers, this is the annual tome for you.
If you see beauty in the numbers, this is the annual tome for you.
An interesting statistical approach to baseball, this is a book to browse and not one to read cover-to-cover.
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