Baseball Prospectus 2014

The bestselling annual baseball preview from the smartest analysts in the business Now in its 19th edition, the "Baseball Prospectus" annual shows once again how it became the industry leader: The 2014 edition includes key stat categories, more controversial player predictions, and the kind of wise, witty baseball commentary that makes this phone-book-thick tome worth reading cover to cover."Baseball Prospectus 2014" provides fantasy players and insiders alike with prescient PECOTA projections, which "Sports Illustrated "has called ""perhaps the game's most accurate projection model."" Still, stats are just numbers if you don't see the larger context, and "Baseball Prospectus "brings together an elite team of analysts to provide the definitive look at all thirty teams--their players, their prospects, and their managers--to explain away flukes, hot streaks, injury-tainted numbers, and park effects. Victory, after all, could come down to choosing between the supposed sleeper and the over

""The tip of the nerd spear."" —Ken Tremendous   ""If you're a baseball fan and you don't know what BP is, you're working in a mine without one of those helmets with the lights on it."" —Keith Olbermann   ""Baseball Prospectus has become the standard by which all scouting guides should be measured."" —Billy Beane, General Manager, Oakland A's   ""For me, every year baseball begins with the big, brilliant, beautiful book you are holding in your hands right now."" —Joe Posnanski

""The first time I saw the PECOTA projections, I realized that someone out there understood."" —Jeff Luhnow, General Manager, Houston Astros