Baseball Prospectus 2015

by Baseball Prospectus

Overview

The essential guide to the 2015 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 2015 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.

Baseball Prospectus 2015contains critical essays on each of the thirty teams and player comments for some sixty players for each of those teams; projects each player's 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). Now in its twentieth edition, this New York Times bestselling insider's guide from Baseball Prospectus, America's leading provider of statistical analysis for baseball, remains hands down the most authoritative and entertaining book of its kind.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781118471487
Publisher:	Trade Paper Press
Publication date:	02/10/2015
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	600
File size:	10 MB

Table of Contents

Foreword Preface Statistical Introduction 2015: The Year in Sabermetrics Teams Arizona DiamondbacksAtlanta Braves Baltimore Orioles Boston Red Sox Chicago White Sox Chicago Cubs Cincinnati Reds Cleveland Indians Colorado Rockies Detroit Tigers Houston Astros Kansas City Royals Los Angeles Angels Los Angeles Dodgers Miami Marlins Milwaukee Brewers Minnesota Twins New York Mets New York Yankees Oakland Athletics Philadelphia Phillies Pittsburgh Pirates San Diego Padres San Francisco Giants Seattle Mariners Washington Nationals Sabermetrician Wanted, Must Have MFA The Baseball Prospectus Top 101 Prospects Team Name Codes PECOTA Leaderboards Contributors AcknowledgmentsIndex

Editorial Reviews

"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

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