Baseball Prospectus 2008: The Essential Guide to the 2008 Baseball Season - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0452289033 ISBN 13: 9780452289031

Publisher: Plume, 2008

Synopsis

A thorough guide to the upcoming baseball season provides detailed profiles of major league players, teams, and prospects, along with information on statistics for the past five seasons and projections for the 2008 baseball season. Original.

About this title

From the Publisher

Baseball Prospectus 2001 is the one source for all the inside information and original analysis that every true baseball fan needs on all the players of today and tomorrow. Only Baseball Prospectus contains complete analyses of the top players in each organization from the stars all the way down to rookie ball, and does so with objective, intelligent commentary and irreverent humor. Baseball Prospectus gives you the final word on what the players did, why they did it and what they're going to do in the future. Baseball Prospectus 2001's special features include in-depth commentary on 1644 players; complete Davenport Translation information, including Peripheral ERA, and evaluations of players' secondary as well as their primary defensive position; Michael Wolverton's starting and relief pitcher performance tools and Rany Jazayerli's new and improved Pitcher Abuse Points analysis; forecasts of hitter performance using Clay Davenport's exclusive "Wilton" forecasting system; Keith Woolner's pitcher abuse research; Clay Davenport's research on park factors; this year's Top 40 Minor League Prospects, and more.

About the Author

Joseph Sheehan, Chris Kahrl, and Clay Davenport are among the leaders in the discipline of sabermetrics - the analysis of baseball statistics.

Edition details

• Publisher: Plume
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0452289033
• ISBN 13: 9780452289031
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 624
• Editor: Goldman Steven, Kahrl Christina