Baseball Prospectus 2010 - Softcover

Baseball Prospectus

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0470558407 ISBN 13: 9780470558409

Publisher: Trade Paper Press, 2010

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Baseball Prospectus (10) by Prospectus, Baseball [Paperback (2010)]

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The bestselling annual baseball preview from the smartest analysts in the business

The essential guide to the 2010 baseball season is on deck now, and whether you're a fan or fantasy player-or both-you won't be properly informed without it. Baseball Prospectus 2010 brings together an elite group of analysts to provide the definitive look at the upcoming season in critical essays and commentary on the thirty teams, their managers, and more than sixty players and prospects from each team.

• Contains critical essays on each of the thirty teams and player comments for some sixty players for each of those teams
• Projects each players stats for the coming season using the groundbreaking PECOTA projection system, which has been called "perhaps the game's most accurate projection model" (Sports Illustrated)
• From Baseball Prospectus, America's leading provider of statistical analysis for baseball

Now in its fifteenth edition, this New York Times bestselling insider's guide remains hands down the most authoritative and entertaining book of its kind.

Top Ten Ways Your Friends Will Know You Haven't Read Baseball Prospectus 2010

10. You think signing Jason Bay for $66 million was a great move, and wish Omar Minaya had gone harder after Bengie Molina and Jarrod Washburn.

9. You drafted Derek Jeter and Derrek Lee early in your fantasy league this year.

8. You can't imagine why we'd need their new pitching stat--SIERA--when we already have ERA.

7. You think this might be Houston's year.

6. You've never heard of Jesus Montero, Jason Heyward, or Mike Stanton.

5. You've heard of Montero, Heyward, and Stanton, but without BP's new "MLB %" playing time projection, you overdrafted them.

4. You think your team will be better than the Yankees this year.

3. You're not bleary-eyed from staying up all night reading hundreds of pages of smart stats and witty commentary.

2. The name Matt Wieters doesn't make you giggle a little.

1. You're Brian Sabean.

From the Back Cover:

New York Times Bestseller

David Wright

Will his power come back when the Mets need it?

Madison Bumgarner

Do the Giants have a second Lincecum in the wings?

Matt Wieters

Will this year be the young catcher's year?

Albert Pujols

Can he be this awesome forever?

B.J. Upton

Which version will the Rays get this year?

Adam Lind

The new Jason Bay, or the new Mike Jacobs?

Featuring Nate Silver's Deadly Accurate PECOTA

Projections for More Than 1,600 Players

"Baseball Prospectus has become the standard by which all scouting guides should be measured."

–Billy Beane, General Manager, Oakland A's

The 2010 Edition of the New York Times bestselling guide

"THE BEST BOOK OF ITS KIND."—Rob Neyer, espn.com

Now in its fifteenth edition, the Baseball Prospectus annual shows once again how it became the industry leader: the 2010 Edition includes brand-new 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 2010 provides fantasy players and insiders alike with Nate Silver's uncannily 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, park effects, and overrated prospects who won't be able to fool people in the Show like they have down on the farm.

Nearly every Major League team has sought the advice of current or former Prospectus writers, and readers of Baseball Prospectus 2010 will understand what all those fans have been raving about.

"Baseball Prospectus adds to our understanding of the game."—Bob Costas

"Witty . . . savvy . . . a rich snapshot of where the game and its reference books are today and where they're going."—Sports Illustrated

"Baseball Prospectus continues to raise the bar for innovative baseball analysis every year."—Mark Shapiro, General Manager, Cleveland Indians

"If a general manager hasn't read Baseball Prospectus, he should be fired for incompetence."—Michael Lewis, author of Moneyball

Baseball Prospectus 2009 correctly predicted:

• The collapse of 2008 stars Joe Saunders, Carlos Quentin, Daisuke Matsuzake, Ryan Ludwick, and Josh Hamilton.
• Breakout seasons from Max Scherzer, Colby Rasmus, Pablo Sandoval, and Andrew McCutchen.
• Major comebacks for Javier Vasquez, Troy Tulowitzki, Ryan Zimmerman, and Robinson Cano.
• That Toronto and Houston weren't as good as their records in 2008—and that management would find out the hard way in 2009.
• That the Yankees' astonishing free-agent spree—the biggest off-season ever—would be worth it this time around.
• That the Angels would get to the playoffs, but that's it. Again.

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About this edition

• Publisher: Trade Paper Press
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0470558407
• ISBN 13: 9780470558409
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 672