false 5299986 1 <B>The 2009 edition of the <I>New York Times</I> bestselling guide to major league baseball that is simply “the best book of its kind” (Rob Neyer)</B><BR><BR> Now in its fourteenth edition, the <I>Baseball Prospectus</I> annual is the industry leader among annual baseball guides and the rightful successor to Bill James’s legendary bestselling <I>Baseball Abstracts</I>. 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” (<I>Sports Illustrated</I>). <I>Baseball Prospectus 2009</I> 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 <I>Baseball Prospectus</I> writers and analysts as consultants. The baseball bible for fantasy players and devoted fans, <I>Baseball Prospectus</I> can be relied upon to once again hit it out of the park. 5367423 16 2 2009 Baseball Prospectus 2009: The Essential Guide to the 2009 Baseball Season (Baseball Prospectus) total:40|5:17|4:17|3:4|2:2|1:0| 40 169 54 15 4 0 false false Wed Feb 18 15:33:40 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 18 06:17:01 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 18 15:33:40 -0800 2009
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 ag...more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri May 29 17:43:17 -0700 2009 Fri May 29 17:44:57 -0700 2009
Data freaks will love the statistics developed by the folks at Baseball Prospectus. Readers must digest the di...more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Jun 03 01:51:22 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 03 01:55:16 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Mar 03 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 17 08:42:14 -0800 2009 Tue Mar 03 09:55:09 -0800 2009
Fortunately, I possess that degree of obsessiveness.

So, what do you get? Essay reviews of...more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Mar 02 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 18 06:15:17 -0800 2009 Thu Mar 05 06:49:44 -0800 2009 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 ...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Feb 15 04:53:43 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 15 04:58:47 -0800 2009 With it and the similarly annual Bill James Guide, you can review the careers and projected trajectories of ...more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Mar 08 21:02:03 -0700 2009 Sun Mar 08 21:04:26 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Sun Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Mar 05 06:46:09 -0800 2009 Mon Mar 16 12:52:22 -0700 2009
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.

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