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Baseball prospectus 2012 (paperback)
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The 2012 Edition of the New York Times bestselling guide
"The Best Book Of Its Kind."*Rob Neyer
Now in its seventeenth edition, the Baseball Prospectus annual shows once again how it became the industry leader: the 2012 edition includes key stat categories, more controversial player predictions, and the kind of wise, witty baseball commentary that makes this phone-book-thick tome worth reading cover to cover.
Baseball Prospectus 2012 provides fantasy players and insiders alike with uncannily prescient PECOTA projections, which Sports Illustrated has called "perhaps the game"s most accurate projection model." Still, stats are just numbers if you don"t see the larger context, and Baseball Prospectus brings together an elite team of analysts to provide the definitive look at all thirty teams*their players, their prospects, and their managers*to explain away flukes, hot streaks, injury-tainted numbers, park effects, and overrated prospects who won"t be able to fool people in the Show like they have down on the farm.
Nearly every Major League team has sought the advice of current or former Prospectus writers, and readers of Baseball Prospectus 2012 will understand what all those fans have been raving about.
"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
"For me, every year baseball begins with the big, brilliant, beautiful book you are holding in your hands right now." *Joe Posnanski
"Baseball Prospectus continues to raise the bar for innovative baseball analysis every year."
*Mark Shapiro, President, Cleveland Indians
"If a general manager hasn"t read Baseball Prospectus, he should be fired for incompetence."
*Michael Lewis, author of Moneyball
Baseball Prospectus 2011 correctly predicted:
The collapse of 2010 stars Vernon Wells, Trevor Cahill, and Austin Jackson, as well as serious regression for Josh Hamilton and Ubaldo Jimenez
Strong comebacks for Pablo Sandoval and Carlos Beltran, as well as Dan Haren"s strong finish with the Angels being a better indicator of 2011 performance than his pre-trade struggles with the D-Backs
Breakout seasons from Michael Pineda, Desmond Jennings, Danny Espinosa, Craig Kimbrel, and Jeremy Hellickson
That Albert Pujols plus the Cardinals" starting rotation would still be a recipe for success
That the Diamondbacks had a much brighter immediate future than the typical last-place club
That Dave Dombrowski"s roster restructuring in Detroit would lead the Tigers back into contention
Ken Tremendous
Preface ix
King Kaufman and Cecilia M. Tan
Statistical Introduction xi
Colin Wyers
Teams
Arizona Diamondbacks 1
Atlanta Braves 19
Baltimore Orioles 37
Boston Red Sox 54
Chicago Cubs 71
Chicago White Sox 88
Cincinnati Reds 105
Cleveland Indians 122
Colorado Rockies 138
Detroit Tigers 155
Houston Astros 172
Kansas City Royals 192
Los Angeles Angels 211
Los Angeles Dodgers 228
Miami Marlins 249
Milwaukee Brewers 266
Minnesota Twins 282
New York Mets 301
New York Yankees 318
Oakland Athletics 336
Philadelphia Phillies 351
Pittsburgh Pirates 367
St. Louis Cardinals 385
San Diego Padres 401
San Francisco Giants 419
Seattle Mariners 434
Tampa Bay Rays 451
Texas Rangers 469
Toronto Blue Jays 484
Washington Nationals 501
The Baseball Prospectus Top 101 Prospects 517
Kevin Goldstein
Team Name Codes 527
PECOTA Leaderboards 530
Contributors 535
Acknowledgments 538
Index 540
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