Baseball Prospectus 2012
The 2012 Edition of theNew York Timesbestselling guide"The Best Book Of Its Kind."—Rob NeyerNow in its seventeenth edition, theBaseball Prospectusannual 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 2012provides fantasy players and insiders alike with uncannily prescient PECOTA projections, whichSports Illustratedhas called "perhaps the game's most accurate projection model." Still, stats are just numbers if you don't see the larger context, andBaseball Prospectusbrings 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 ofBaseball Prospectus 2012will 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 Prospectuscontinues to raise the bar for innovative baseball analysis every year."—Mark Shapiro, President, Cleveland Indians"If a general manager hasn't readBaseball Prospectus, he should be fired for incompetence."—Michael Lewis, author ofMoneyballBaseball Prospectus 2011correctly predicted:The collapse of 2010 stars Vernon Wells, Trevor Cahill, and Austin Jackson, as well as serious regression for Josh Hamilton and Ubaldo JimenezStrong 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-BacksBreakout seasons from Michael Pineda, Desmond Jennings, Danny Espinosa, Craig Kimbrel, and Jeremy HellicksonThat Albert Pujols plus the Cardinals' starting rotation would still be a recipe for successThat the Diamondbacks had a much brighter immediate future than the typical last-place clubThat Dave Dombrowski's roster restructuring in Detroit would lead the Tigers back into contention