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Bill James Handbook 2009
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$ 26.58
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Item Description...
Product Description
Every year, thousands of avid baseball fans eagerly await The Bill James Handbook the best and most complete annual baseball guide available. Full of exclusive stats, this book is the most comprehensive resource of every hit, pitch and catch in Major League Baseball's 2008 season.
Key features include:
- Exclusive! Fielding Bible Awards
- New Relief Pitching
- Manufactured Runs Analysis
- Young Talent Inventory
- Manager's Record
- Baserunning Analysis
- Career data for every 2008 major leaguer (and a few bonus players) with more statistical categories than any other book
- Pitcher Projections
- Hitter Projections
- Team Efficiency Summary
- Player Win Shares
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Item Specifications...
Pages 506
Dimensions: Length: 1.25" Width: 7" Height: 9"
Weight: 1.8 lbs.
Binding Softcover
Release Date Nov 1, 2008
ISBN 0879463678
EAN 9780879463670
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 | Gift for son Jan 9, 2010 |
| This was a Christmas present for my son. He was very excited to receive the book. | | | | The Ron Shandler of Statistics! Jan 6, 2010 |
As the other reviewers have noted, this book is full of insightful statistics. James, along with most sabremetricians, is doing a much better job of relating statistics to actual on-field performance. That this book comes out so early is a big plus, though one that's negated now in January. Just the fielding sections make this book worth browsing!
My one, abeit relatively major, complaint is that the minor league seasons are not included in the players' career. I miss the old "Baseball Register" for that reason alone. | | |  | Fix for the Off-Season Jan 1, 2010 |
The Bill James Handbook has been around for a while and diehard baseball fans like me, this is the offseason cure for my addition. Now about this book:
* The Annual Fielding Bible Awards
* Stats include Runs Created and adjusted ERA (Component ERA)- These stats alone make the book worth buying).
* Updated Ball Park Indexes
* Another Big Plus- Manager Stats
* New This Year- Pinch Hitting Analysis
* New This Year- Instant Replay History
* Projections- If you buy the book, you can go online and get updated ones in spring training. Take the ones in the book with a serious grain of salt since this book was published on November 1st.
Summary- A must buy for a true baseball fan. Also recommended- Baseball Forecaster by Ron Shandler, Baseball Prospectus | | |  | Not Enough Analysis Dec 23, 2009 |
As you would expect with Bill James, this book is packed with statistics. But I expected that this book would analyze teams and pennant races for the 2010 season. It doesn't do that. It is mostly a few hundred pages of every kind of stat on ever player imaginable. Not bad if that's your thing, but I can find all the stats I want online.
The title is also a bit of a misnomer. It is not really a Bill James book. He has one article in it, but others have compiled the data and offer their minimal commentary. Take a pass. | | | | Crunching Numbers Around the Diamond Dec 14, 2009 |
Publisher ACTA Sports gets the Hot Stove League cranked up with Baseball Info Solutions and Bill James through the recent publication of The Bill James Handbook 2010.
The thick 510 pages of text in the Handbook touches every base with grand splendor for fans, fantasy players and those inside the pro game who are looking for comprehensive stats from last season to prepare for the 2010 campaign.
Along with Win Shares, team statistics, hitter projections and pitcher projections, there are new sections that analyze pinch hitting and the brief history of instant replay, along with updated park indices to include new Yankee Stadium and Citi Field. While the career register for every major leaguer who played in 2009 is a grand slam, it is the small ball with the manager's record and a trifecta of sections - manufacturing runs, base running, fielding - that digs deep into the data for numerous gems.
There are only an elite few mentioned in the hitting, base running and pitching categories for career targets that include homers from 600 to 900, swiping 1,000 bases and those most likely to toss a no-hitter for the first time. And when it comes to pitchers notching 300 career wins, the calculations deliver a pessimistic lineup card.
"As of the end of the 2009 season no pitcher seems likely to emerge as a solid 300-win candidate for the next several seasons," James writes. "The two pitchers who are well-positioned to emerge as 300-win candidates in about five years, if they can continue to pitch well, are Roy Halladay (Toronto Blue Jays) and CC Sabathia (Yankees).
"Dan Haren (Arizona Diamondbacks) does well in our calculation because Haren has made every start and pitched 200-plus innings a year for several years, which is characteristic of pitchers who last a long time." | | | Write your own review about Bill James Handbook 2009
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