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Overview

Written by three esteemed baseball statisticians, The Book continues where the legendary Bill James’s Baseball Abstracts and Palmer and Thorn’s The Hidden Game of Baseball left off more than twenty years ago. Continuing in the grand tradition of sabermetrics, the authors provide a revolutionary way to think about baseball with principles that can be applied at every level, from high school to the major leagues.

Tom Tango, Mitchel Lichtman, and Andrew Dolphin cover topics such as batting and pitching matchups, platooning, the benefits and risks of intentional walks and sacrifices, the legitimacy of alleged “clutch” hitters, and many of baseball’s other theories on hitting, fielding, pitching, and even baserunning. They analyze when a strategy is a good idea and when it’s a bad idea, and how to more closely watch the “inside” game of baseball.

Whenever you hear an announcer talk about the “unwritten rule” or say that so-and-so is going “by the book” in bringing in a situational substitute, The Book reviews the facts and determines what the real case is. If you want to know what the folks in baseball should be doing, find out in The Book.

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  • ISBN-13: 9781597971294
  • Publisher: Potomac Books, Inc.
  • Publication date: 5/30/2007
  • Pages: 386
  • Sales rank: 81,204
  • Product dimensions: 6.00 (w) x 8.90 (h) x 1.10 (d)

Meet the Author

Tom Tango runs the Tango on Baseball website and has consulted for major league baseball teams. He lives in New Jersey.

Mitchel Lichtman has been doing sabermetric research for over seventeen years and was the senior analyst for a major league baseball team. He lives in New York.

Andrew Dolphin has been working with sports statistics for over ten years and is a consultant for a major league baseball team. He lives in Tucson, Arizona.

Table of Contents


List Of Tables     6
Foreword     12
Preface     14
Toolshed     16
When You're Hot, You're Hot     53
Mano a Mano     69
Jordan, Woods,...Spiezio?     97
Batting (Dis)Order     121
Left, Right, Left, Right     152
Starting Pitchers     183
Leveraging Relievers     208
To Sacrifice or Not     237
Boots Were Made For Walking     288
Running Wild     323
Bluffing In Baseball     340
Don't Try This At Home     365
Index     383
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    Great read

    If sabermetrics are your thing than this is a must read. I'll warn you it does get a little math heavy at times.

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