Baseball Prospectus 2011
Baseball Prospectus 2011 . The bestselling annual baseball preview from the smartest analysts in the business. The essential guide to the 2011 baseball season is on deck now, and whether you’re a fan or fantasy player—or both—you won’t be properly informed without it. Baseball Prospectus 2011 brings together an elite group of analysts to provide the definitive look at the upcoming season in critical essays and commentary on the thirty teams, their managers, and more than sixty players and prospects from each team.
- Contains critical essays on each of the thirty teams and player comments for some sixty players for each of those teams
- Projects each player’s stats for the coming season using the groundbreaking PECOTA projection system, which has been called “perhaps the game’s most accurate projection model” (Sports Illustrated)
- From Baseball Prospectus, America’s leading provider of statistical analysis for baseball
Top Ten Ways Your Friends Will Know You Haven’t Read Baseball Prospectus 2011
10. You think $86 million dollars sounds like the perfect price to pay for three years of Derek Jeter and Rafael Soriano.
9. You drafted Josh Hamilton or Ubaldo Jimenez in the first round of your fantasy draft this year.
8. The fielding metrics you’ve been looking at tell you Kevin Kouzmanoff and Matt Holliday were elite fielders last year.
7. You think this might be Chicago’s year.
6. You’ve never heard of Chris Carter, Jesus Montero, or Steven Hill.
5. You’ve heard of Carter, Montero, and Steven Hill, but without BP’s “MLB %” playing time projection and scouting report, you overdrafted them in your fantasy league.
4. You think your team will be better than the Red Sox this year.
3. You’re not bleary-eyed from staying up all night reading hundreds of pages of smart stats and witty commentary.
2. The words “Vernon Wells traded” don’t make you giggle a little.
1. You’re Ed Wade.