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The Bill James Handbook 2012
Each year, before the massive flurry of baseball annuals start pouring in, the Bill James Handbook is the first to hit store shelves. Barely a week after the World Series ends I have the book in my hands and I'm thumbing through hundreds of pages of stats, some commonplace, others unique to this...
The Bill James Handbook 2010
Each season, just as the World Series draws to a close the baseball annual season gets cranking, and each November 1st we get the new Bill James Handbook, an offseason tradition that stretches back for the better part of a decade now. This year, with the World Baseball Classic pushing back the...
Ozzie Guillen Is Becoming Less Extreme
Last off-season, prompted by a game in which I perceived the outcome to be effected by Ozzie Guillen's quick hook, I examined the evolution of Guillen's hook. I thought about taking it a step further in the dead time around Christmas again, but in flipping through the 2010 Bill James Handbook, I...
Gaslamp Book Club: The Bill James Handbook 2010
I've always liked big baseball books, or at least, I've liked the idea of big baseball books. Tomes of base-ball knowledge! Take this scene from a little known film about baseball: Now, while you may have been paying attention to the moving monologue performed by Sir James Earl Jones, I was...
The Bill James Handbook 2010 - Projections For The Washington Nationals' 2010 OF.
Once again, the folks at Acta Sports, publishers of The Bill James Handbook 2010, have given the SB Nation writers who are interested access to the "Hitter Projections" from the soon-to-be published (on Nov. 1, 2009) 2010 edition of Mr. James' Handbook, which is referred to in a testimonial quote...
The Bill James Handbook 2009
Kim: Looks like you got another !@#$ing book in the mail. Me: The new Bill James Handbook is here! The new Bill James Handbook is here! Kim: [not quite under her breath] Loser. Me: ::grinning like a goon:: That conversation may not have actually taken place, but it might as well have. I've...
Monday Applesauce
In the Dominican Republic: Argenis Reyes went 0-for-4 with a walk. Fernando Martinez went 1-for-4 with a walk and an RBI. Fernando Tatis went 2-for-7 with an RBI. In Puerto Rico: After picking up his first two hits of the fall on Saturday, Nick Evans went 0-for-2 with a walk on...
2009 Bill James Projections: Available Hitters
The last three days we looked at The Bill James Handbook projections for Mets hitters and pitchers as well as other pitchers who might be available via trade or free agency. There's nothing new going on until after the World Series anyway, so let's go back to the projection well for another...
2009 Bill James Projections: Available Pitchers
The last two days we looked at The Bill James Handbook projections for Mets hitters and pitchers. That's fun and all, but one thing we've had to acknowledge is that any number of those players won't actually be on the Mets next season (I'm looking at you, Marlon Anderson!). So let's have a crack...
2009 Bill James Projections: Mets Pitchers
Yesterday we looked at The Bill James Handbook Mets hitter projections for next year, so go hitter projections. Pitchers tend to be a more volatile breed than hitters for a couple of big reasons I can think of. First, even the most workhorse-like of starting pitchers play far less than regular...
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