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The Bill James Handbook 2008
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by Baseball Info Solutions
Sales Rank: 82132
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List Price: $21.95
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Features
Cover Type: Paperback with 482 pages
Published by: ACTA Sports November 1, 2007
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 0879463406
ISBN 13 Number: 978-0879463403
Book Dimensions:
8.8 x 7 x 0.1 inches
Weighs: 1.4 pounds
Peter Gammons
The prize of our winter hibernation.
Book Description
Simply put, The Bill James Handbook 2008 is the best and most complete annual baseball reference guide available today. Avid stat fans look forward to it every year, and casual baseball fans enjoy its comprehensive content. This book contains a myriad of stats on every hit, pitch and catch in Major League Baseball's 2007 season.
New and key features include: - Exclusive! Fielding Bible Awards
- Improved! Manufactured Runs Analysis
- New! Young Talent Inventory
- "Selling My Soul to Bill James" by Sam Walker, author of Fantasyland
- Manager Records
- Baserunning Analysis
- Career data for every 2007 major leaguer
- Pitcher Projections
- Hitter Projections
- Team Efficiency Summary
- Player Win Shares
Reader Reviews
Those familiar with the Bill James Handbooks will know what the 2008 version is about. This volume is chock full of intriguing statistics. One part that I like is a prediction of how various players are expected to do in the next baseball season (in this case, 2008). On pages 442 and following, we see the projected batting figures for players; on pages 456 and following, we see projections for pitchers for 2008. This year, the work does not contain predictions of career totals, given the uncertainty of injuries. Let's take a look at some predictions for 2008: Prince Fielder is projected to hit 44 homers with a batting average of .289; he is predicted to steal 4 bases and be caught twice. Frank Thomas, nearing the end of his career is projected to hit 28 home runs with a batting average of .262. One nice thing about the book is that it provides an indicator of how accurate last year's predictions were. Fielder was predicted to have the following statistics in 2007: thirty homers and a .280 batting average; his real productivity was 50 homers and a .288 average. Injuries accounted for some erroneous projections, as with Joe Crede and Scott Rolen. The text notes which predictions were way off and which were pretty accurate. A nice bit of accountability. There are the unique statistics created and developed by Bill James and his colleagues, such as team efficiency, baseball park indices, those batters who are most apt to swing at the first pitch (Delmon Young in the AL, at 51.4% of first pitches; the corresponding NL figure is Jeff Francouer at 44.1%), those who are least likely to swing at first pitches (e.g., Reggie Willitts of the Angels at 4.6% and J. J. Hardy of Milwaukee at 7.9%. And on it goes. So, this book gives baseball fans a chance to start gearing up for 2008, provides lots of material for hot stove league discussions, and gets one to thinking about performance of major league players in a different way.
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