Bill James Handbook 2023

by Bill James

Analysis of how every single player in the majors performed last year and over their career and what we can expect from these vets in the future and the rookies projected to join them soon. Here is just some of what the 34th annual edition of The Bill James Handbook has to offer going into next season: More Original Research on Cool Topics; The Annual Fielding Bible Awards; Home Run Robberies; Hits Lost/Gained to the Shift; Manufactured Runs and RBI Percentages; Hitter and Pitcher Projections for next season.

Genres: Baseball

Paperback

Published November 1, 2022

About the author

George William “Bill” James (born October 5, 1949, in Holton, Kansas) is a baseball writer, historian, and statistician whose work has been widely influential. Since 1977, James has written more than two dozen books devoted to baseball history and statistics. His approach, which he termed sabermetrics in reference to the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR), scientifically analyzes and studies baseball, often through the use of statistical data, in an attempt to determine why teams win and lose. His Baseball Abstract books in the 1980s are the modern predecessor to websites using sabermetrics such as Baseball Prospectus and Baseball Primer (now Baseball Think Factory).

In 2006, Time named him in the Time 100 as one of the most influential people in the world. He is currently a Senior Advisor on Baseball Operations for the Boston Red Sox. In 2010, Bill James was inducted into the Irish American Baseball Hall of Fame.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_James

Reviews

[Rodger Payne]

I've been buying and reading this annual baseball book since 1994. My basement shelves are filled with these, plus they used to produce both Minor and Major League Handbooks and I bought both. I used to buy it for the stats, but the internet has made most of those widely available. Now I buy it because I like the short essays that accompany many of the specialized stats -- and I like to hold a book in my hands while I read those essays and study those stats.

This year's book was somewhat disappointing in that I found numerous top prospects that do not receive projections for 2023: Arias CLE, Arranda TB, Baty NYM, Benson CLE/CIN, Brennan CLE, Burleson STL, Campusano SD, K Carpenter DET, J Diaz OAK, Y Diaz HOU, Florial NYY, Freeman CLE, Keidler DET, Outman LAD, E Rosario SD, Stowers BAL, Vargas, LAD, Vientos NYM and Wallner MIN.

There's a decent chance that this list includes a couple of guys who will finish in the top 5 for rookie of the year in each league. I think at least half are currently in the majors in April 2023.