THE BOOK--Playing The Percentages In Baseball

thanks, tango.

I’m going to be grabbing this with some spare money in a month or so. Hope people continue to support THT, one of my first go-to sites for sabermetrics (even before the book blog).

Nice. I was beginning to wonder if they were having an annual this year. I hadn’t seen a link on the sidebar until a few days ago. I may be blind though.

I’m on way to order it. What kind of research articles are in this edition?

David/3 - from the linked article

Adam Dorhauer has a perfect analytic approach to estimate the best hitters, at their peak, in baseball history.

Matt Swartz follows up on his initial work at Baseball Prospectus with an in-depth analysis of whether teams know their own players best.

Max Marchi has some excellent work on the pitchers who drew the most fans to the ballpark. Guess how many extra fans Mark Fidrych drew to baseball games in 1976.

John Dewan presents fielding and pitching runs allowed, based on the terrific work of the folks at Baseball Info Solutions

Speaking of fielding, Michael Humphreys has some new thoughts on what makes an excellent system for judging fielders.

And Brian Cartwright has a fantastic new take, using HITf/x data, on whether groundball pitchers should be treated differently when it comes to those BABIP projections.