Big Bad Baseball Annual 2000 - Softcover

Malcolm, Don; Forman, Sean; Hanke, Brock J.; Furtado, Jim; Ruane, Tom

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0962584622 ISBN 13: 9780962584626

Publisher: Long Gone Pr, 2000

Synopsis

The 2000 Big Bad Baseball Annual provides the most comprehensive analysis of baseball on the market today. BBBA 2000 features a unique mix of player analysis, team essays, and ground-breaking work on baseball's past, present, and future. Whether you are a rotisserie player, a simulation junkie or a devoted baseball fan, you will find all 512 pages both informative and entertaining.

BBBA 2000 contains park-adjusted stats, exclusive Scouting Value rankings and author analysis and comments for over 850 major league players. We utilize player analysis tools like Extrapolated Runs, the most accurate runs estimation tool on the market today, the Starting Pitcher Quality Matrix, a start by start look at starting pitchers, and Win Probability Added, a detailed look at relief pitcher usage and effectiveness.

BBBA 2000 takes a comprehensive look at each team's season with insightful team essays covering up and coming stars, fading veterans, astute personnel moves and some not so astute. The Big Bad Baseball Annual also takes a swing at where the team has been and where it might be heading.

Not satisfied with just team and player comments? The Big Bad Baseball Annual also takes on some of the larger issues in baseball and baseball analysis. BBBA 2000 contains essays by Don Malcolm on the interaction between player age and team winning percentage and a start by start look at starting pitcher performance in the 1962 and 1963 seasons when the strike zone was dramatically altered.

We team with David Smith of Retrosheet for never before seen breakouts of the 1975 World Series combatants -- the Cincinnati Reds and the Boston Red Sox. Brock Hanke reminds us why Rogers Hornsby was on the All-Century team, and Ron Johnson looks at fifteen years of situational data to tell us whether to switch-hit or not to switch-hit.

BBBA 2000 also covers the minor leagues with Sean Forman's Prospectwatch. Sean studies the top prospects for each major league team using his exclusive grading system and player comparison tools. Sean also provides an overview of each team's minor league system.

All this and much more appears in the 2000 Big Bad Baseball Annual.

The authors of the Big Bad Baseball Annual thank you for your generous support. Not only for buying our book, but also for providing feedback and comments that aid our effort to produce a book worthy of our National Pastime.

About this title

From the Publisher:

The Big Bad Baseball Annual grew out of the Baseball Abstracts, first produced by Bill James, and later by Brock Hanke after James "broke the wand". Just as James pushed the field of baseball analysis and sabermetrics forward with his ground-breaking work, the Big Bad Baseball Annual attempts to do the same with new tools and new studies on just what makes some teams winners and some players Hall of Famers.

The BBBA authors are some of the most widely read and recognized baseball analysts on the internet today. Whether you are reading the player comments, the team essays or the general studies, you will find their writing engaging, informative and entertaining.

From the Author:

The 2000 Big Bad Baseball Annual contains all the features you've grown to expect over the last ten years. We provide up to date player comments, statistical analysis, and our view on where teams and players are headed. In our team essays, we look at what went right and what went wrong for each major league team, who their top players are and why, along with breakouts of their season.

At BBBA, we make an effort to cover not only baseball's present and immediate future, but also baseball's past and long-term future. You can find baseball statistics and opinions on current players many places, but only in BBBA can you find situational breakouts for Jackie Robinson's career (1999 edition), an overview of trends in Japanese Baseball (1998 edition), an in depth look at the 1996 offensive explosion (1997 edition), and a detailed study on the effectiveness of switch-hitting (this year's edition).

Thank you for your interest and support for our book. Feel free to send us feedback or read many of our articles on our website at bigbadbaseball.com.

About this edition

• Publisher: Long Gone Pr
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0962584622
• ISBN 13: 9780962584626
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 512