Baseball Prospectus 2006

by Baseball Prospectus, Steve Goldman (Editor), Christina Kahrl (Editor)

Fans and fantasy league players, get your inside intelligence from the same source as many Major League front offices—BASEBALL PROSPECTUS. BASEBALL PROSPECTUS 2006 provides unprecedented original performance analysis of over 1,600 players, from stars at the top of their game to prospects vying for Rookie of the Year. It

• In-depth, insightful essays on all 30 Major League Baseball clubs, with no-holds-barred evaluations of at least 50 players per organization
• Baseball Prospectus’s exclusive (and deadly accurate) PECOTA projection system, forecasting the chances that a player will break out,
improve, or collapse
• In-depth features on the true costs of injuries, adventures in win expectancy, the limitations of statistical analysis—plus all our stats
explained!
The Baseball Prospectus team of cutting-edge analysts includes Mark Armour, Andrew Baharlias, Jim Baker, James Click, Clifford J. Corcoran, Clay Davenport, John Erhardt, Gary Gillette, Steven Goldman, Thomas Gorman, Gary Huckabay, Jay Jaffe, Rany Jazayerli, Christina Kahrl, Jonah Keri, Mark McClusky, Dave Pease, Dayn Perry, Nate Silver, and Keith Woolner.

Genres: Baseball, Sports, Nonfiction

554 pages, Paperback

First published March 7, 2006

About the author

Baseball Prospectus is an organization that publishes a website, BaseballProspectus.com, devoted to the sabermetric analysis of baseball. BP has a staff of regular columnists and provides advanced statistics as well as player and team performance projections on the site.

Since 1996 the BP staff has also published a Baseball Prospectus annual as well as several other books devoted to baseball analysis and history.

Reviews

[Justin · Rating 3 out of 5]

Fun to look back and see projections that did and didn't pan out, but the essays here feel less essential than in 2008 (some of that, of course, is related to being two years out of date, such as the WX article).

[Lorne · Rating 4 out of 5]

Baseball nerd!