Baseball Prospectus 2023

by Baseball Prospectus

The 2023 edition of The New York Times Bestselling Guide.

PLAY BALL! The 28th edition of this industry-leading baseball annual contains all of the important statistics, player predictions and insider-level commentary that readers have come to expect, along with significant improvements to several statistics that were created by, and are exclusive to, Baseball Prospectus, and an expanded focus on international players and teams.

Baseball Prospectus 2023 provides fantasy players and insiders alike with prescient PECOTA projections, which The New York Times called “the überforecast of every player’s performance.”

With more than 50 Baseball Prospectus alumni currently working for major-league baseball teams, nearly every organization has sought the advice of current or former BP analysts, and readers of Baseball Prospectus 2023 will understand why!

Genres: Baseball, Nonfiction

600 pages, Paperback

Published January 24, 2023

About the author

Baseball Prospectus is an organization that publishes a website, BaseballProspectus.com, devoted to the sabermetric analysis of baseball. BP has a staff of regular columnists and provides advanced statistics as well as player and team performance projections on the site.

Since 1996 the BP staff has also published a Baseball Prospectus annual as well as several other books devoted to baseball analysis and history.

Reviews

[Jake · Rating 5 out of 5]

Ready for fantasy baseball season now

[Rodger Payne · Rating 4 out of 5]

I have every edition of this book, including the first self-published one that was missing a chapter on the Cardinals. I've probable said all this before, maybe even many times. It is a reliable and well-written book about baseball that I read slowly throughout the season. My reading is typically interrupted by travel (it is as large as an old phone book from a good size city, so it is not especially portable) and this year by calamity. A tree fell on our house in late August and I didn't retrieve this book for a few weeks while we lived nomadically in hotels and Airbnb's. I tend to hop back and forth from AL to NL teams (always starting with the KC Royals) and tend to begin with the teams that have the most top prospects since those are the players most unknown to me.

I almost always read the top 101 prospect section twice, both at the opening of the season and at the end, just to see how well BP did. There are some useful projections that I use throughout the season when making decisions about free agents for my fantasy team. At the start of the season, I tend to use a couple of other sources that are easier to import into a spreadsheet.

[Colin Post · Rating 5 out of 5]

The best reference book for the baseball season, but fitting the stats and projections into the narrative of the game. This is a yearbook in the sense that it’s stuck in a particular time but documents that moment. It’s a snapshot of Major League Baseball right now, and a witty, insightful one at that.

[Jack Mcloone · Rating 5 out of 5]

As always, this remains a fantastic prep to the baseball season for those with a more analytical bent. But even if you’re not much for analytics, the essays and player comments have a lot to offer, making this a good entry point into that side of the game, too.

[Alex Harber · Rating 5 out of 5]

So many players, so many stats.

[Nick Pearson · Rating 4 out of 5]

Not as much humor as editions passed, but still "top of the rotation" stuff.