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Baseball Prospectus 2006: The BP Team of Experts on Baseball Talent | 
 enlarge | Author: Baseball Prospectus Team Of Experts
Publisher: Workman Publishing Company
Category: Book
List Price: $18.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  16 reviews
Sales Rank: 307636
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 554
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.2
Dimensions (in): 10.9 x 8.5 x 1.4
ISBN: 0761139958
Dewey Decimal Number: 796.3570973
EAN: 9780761139959
ASIN: 0761139958
Publication Date: March 7, 2006
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Product Description
Fans and fantasy league players, get your inside intelligence from the same source as many Major League front offices—BASEBALL PROSPECTUS.BASEBALL PROSPECTUS 2006 provides unprecedented original performance analysis of over 1,600 players, from stars at the top of their game to prospects vying for Rookie of the Year. It offers:
• In-depth, insightful essays on all 30 Major League Baseball clubs, with no-holds-barred evaluations of at least 50 players per organization
• Baseball Prospectus’s exclusive (and deadly accurate) PECOTA projection system, forecasting the chances that a player will break out,
improve, or collapse
• In-depth features on the true costs of injuries, adventures in win expectancy, the limitations of statistical analysis—plus all our stats
explained!
The Baseball Prospectus team of cutting-edge analysts includes Mark Armour, Andrew Baharlias, Jim Baker, James Click, Clifford J. Corcoran, Clay Davenport, John Erhardt, Gary Gillette, Steven Goldman, Thomas Gorman, Gary Huckabay, Jay Jaffe, Rany Jazayerli, Christina Kahrl, Jonah Keri, Mark McClusky, Dave Pease, Dayn Perry, Nate Silver, and Keith Woolner.
Check out www.baseballprospectus.com for year-round baseball coverage.
Book Description
It’s the gold standard of statistical guides, lauded by insiders:
“Baseball Prospectus is one of the first things I read every day.”—Theo Epstein, Boston Red Sox General Manager
“Baseball Prospectus has become the standard by which all scouting guides should be measured.”—Billy Beane, Oakland Athletics General Manager
And the outsiders who know:
“If a general manager hasn’t read Baseball Prospectus, he should be fired for incompetence.”—Michael Lewis, author of Moneyball
“The best book of its kind.”—Rob Neyer, ESPN.com
“I never cease to be blown away by the geniuses at Baseball Prospectus.” — Jayson Stark, ESPN
“The best book for preparing for a rotisserie draft.”—USA Today
Packed with statistics, analysis, and attitude, Baseball Prospectus is the essential guide for the 3.4 million serious fantasy baseball players, and the perfect season-long companion for the millions more fans who are looking to understand the inside game. Includes extensive performance analysis of 1,600 players—covering the majors, the minors, top 40 prospects, draft choices, and rookie ball—plus in-depth, insightful essays on all 30 major league clubs and gimlet-eyed evaluations of their top 50 players. With ballpark-adjusted stats, a deadly accurate projection system for forecasting a player’s performance, and more, Baseball Prospectus tells the real story of what happened on the field in 2005 and what it means for 2006.
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 The Baseball Information Derby January 11, 2007
Simply, the best annual publication about major league baseball. Hardball Times would be #2. Somewhere in the dust is the rest of the field.
Best overall baseball book ou there July 30, 2006
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Love Baseball prospectus 2006. Great info and stats. I personally like the humor the authors do in there player Analysis. Makes it fun to read, not just a dry paragraph about numbers. Best part about the book is it is for real baseball fans and roto geeks. Both will enjoy the book.
 Sophmoric nonsense July 7, 2006
4 out of 22 found this review helpful
This is a horrible example of sophmoric "witty" commentary paired with the idiocy of stat-based evaluation. If irrelevant asides were not enough, they are mostly wrong as regards players from the team I follow closely, the Oakland A's. Take the notes on Houston Street ("never will be in the Lidge/Rivera class"), Zito ("overrated"), minor leaguer Travis Buck (stupid comments on his name, totally inappropriate), Ander Ethier (overmatached in the big leagues). Where their prognastications are reasonable, a simple extrapolation from previous years (anyone could do it in their head) would suffice, not some pseudo sophisticated computer program. I hate this book.
Calling all fantasy team owners..... July 3, 2006
4 out of 6 found this review helpful
This is the one book you need before draft day! Oh, and if you're just a major league baseball fan, especially one that knows that there is a lot more to find in the statistics than meets the eye, this book is for you. If your eyes glaze over when you try to decipher statistics, this book makes it easy to understand all you really need to know....oh, and love the snark!
The Book which tells you why your instincts for Baseball are true June 2, 2006
1 out of 16 found this review helpful
This is a page turner. The stats that are introduced tend to support the hueristic beliefs that a true baseball fan already has. As a Phillies fan and a former fantasy league member who drafted teams based on what is now known as a Sabermetrics, I was pleased to see how my former beliefs (I had some good teams in the 80s and 90s before I quit) could be validated by recent research.
Folks,
I love this book.
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