Baseball Prospectus 2009: The Essential Guide to the 2009 Baseball Season;

The 2009 edition of the New York Times bestselling guide to major league baseball that is simply €œthe best book of its kind€ (Rob Neyer)

Now in its fourteenth edition, the Baseball Prospectus annual is the industry leader among annual baseball guides and the rightful successor to Bill James€s legendary bestsellingBaseball Abstracts. The 2009 edition contains critical essays on each of the thirty teams and player comments for some sixty players for each of those teams. Each player€s statistics are projected for the coming season using the groundbreaking PECOTA projection system, called €œperhaps the game€s most accurate projection model€ (Sports Illustrated). Baseball Prospectus 2009 also contains cutting-edge essays on performance analysis, the likes of which have inspired twenty-nine of the thirty major league teams to hire current and formerBaseball Prospectus writers and analysts as consultants. The baseball bible for fantasy players and devoted fans, Baseball Prospectus can be relied upon to once again hit it out of the park.