Books : Baseball Prospectus 2006 : Statistics, Analysis, and Insight for the Information Age (Baseball Prospectus)

by: Baseball Prospectus Team of Experts  Average Rating:

Rating: - Great...and improved
Intelligent, statistically rich, innnovative, opinionated, topical. Even if you're not a stathead, it's a must; when they get a little deep on stat methodology, I just speed-read thru it. This year, it has incorporated a lot more great info into each player capsule. Its staff has tripled, and they're all superb and constantly challenge themselves. This is the fruit of what Bill James seeded. I am a hard-to-please baseball addict, but this is a treasure trove...and better than ever. The gold standard ... Read More

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Rating: - Great for all baseball fans, including Fantasy/Rotisserie players
Baseball Prospectus puts out a quality annual every year. The annual is a whopping 554 pages long (big pages at that), so for most fans, it may not be until the All-Star break before they finish it.
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Rating: - Excellent reading as usual
The new Baseball Prospectus is excellent reading, as usual, but they have made the unfortunate decision to begin including meaningless statistics like wins and losses (even for relief pitchers!) and RBIs. This goes against the entire BP philosophy that they have promoted in the past. If they continue on the path of trying to cater to a wider audience, BP will lose what made it unique in the first place. Still the best player analysis out there, however.