Baseball Forecaster: Annual Review

by Ron Shandler

Ron Shandler is the 2001 winner of Baseball Weekly's LABR-NL league, the industry's most prestigious national experts competition. The Baseball Forecaster and Baseball HQ have also brought home national titles in Tout Wars (2000 AL, 1998 AL and NL), CDM Diamond Challenge (2000, for Josh Paley) and CBS Sportsline (2000, for HQ writer Jeff Howard).

No other baseball analysis tool has as consistent a track record of SUCCESS... Now YOU can learn the SECRETS!

The Tools of Victory:

Forecaster's Toolbox... The ground-breaking research results that drive the most accurate performance projections in the industry.

Stats and Sabermetrics... Over three dozen categories that analyze every aspect of skill, for over 900 players.

Performance Trends... Five years of history that provide the foundation for our 2002 projections.

Snapshot Analyses... Leading indicators that identify potential power surgers, pitcher abuse, and hundreds of sleepers and gambles.

NEW! Pitching Logs... Outing-by-outing stat lines for every starting pitcher. Includes our exclusive Pure Quality Start (PQS) ratings and Dominance/Disaster percentages for 1999-2001.

Minor League Scouting... Complete forecast analyses for next year's top 50 prospects, PLUS major league equivalents for every Double-A and Triple-A player from 2000-2001.

Draft Guide History... Ratings and rankings by position for the past five years and projected for 2002. Includes Rotisserie values and Runs Above Replacement.

Sabermetric glossary... Definitions of the important gauges you need to accurately evaluate performance.

2001 Essay Archive... Ron Shandler's top insights from his weekly column on Baseball HQ.

NEW! FREE ONLINE PROJECTIONS UPDATE! Details inside this year's book.

240 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published December 1, 2001