Baseball Prospectus: The Essential Guide to the 2009 Baseball Season Paperback - 2009

by Steven Goldman (Editor); Christina Kahrl (Editor); Nate Silver (Editor)

The 2009 edition of the New York Times bestsellingguide to major league baseball that is simply"the best book of its kind" (Rob Neyer)

Now in its fourteenth edition, the Baseball Prospectusannual is the industry leader among annual baseballguides and the rightful successor to Bill James'slegendary bestselling Baseball Abstracts. The 2009edition contains critical essays on each of the thirtyteams and player comments for some sixty players foreach of those teams. Each player's statistics are projectedfor the coming season using the groundbreakingPECOTA projection system, called "perhaps the game'smost accurate projection model" (Sports Illustrated).Baseball Prospectus 2009 also contains cutting-edgeessays on performance analysis, the likes of which haveinspired twenty-nine of the thirty major league teams tohire current and former Baseball Prospectus writers andanalysts as consultants. The baseball bible for fantasyplayers and devoted fans, Baseball Prospectus can berelied upon to once again hit it out of the park.