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The Bill James Handbook 2010 |  | Author: Bill James
Publisher: ACTA Publications
Category: Book
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Rating:  28 reviews
Sales Rank: 161189
Media: Paperback
Pages: 520
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.6
Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 6.9 x 1.2
ISBN: 0879464070
Dewey Decimal Number: 796
EAN: 9780879464073
Publication Date: November 1, 2009
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Product Description
Every year, thousands of avid baseball fans eagerly await The Bill James Handbook the best and most complete annual baseball guide available. Full of exclusive stats, this book is the most comprehensive resource of every hit, pitch and catch in Major League Baseball's 2009 season.
Key features include:
- Exclusive! Fielding Bible Awards
- New Instant Replay History
- New Pinch Hitting Analysis
- Updated Park Indices (including the New Yankee Stadium and Citi Field)
- Manufactured Runs Analysis
- Young Talent Inventory
- Manager's Record
- Baserunning Analysis
- Career data for every 2009 major leaguer (and a few bonus players) with more statistical categories than any other book
- Pitcher Projections
- Hitter Projections
- Team Efficiency Summary
- Player Win Shares
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 Bill James Handbook May 16, 2010
GAK (St Louis MO USA)
Bios of players with minor league records, achievements, awards, transactions, are not provided; Which I found disappointing.
Great Reference Work April 5, 2010
Dan Canlon
The Handbook is not really intended for helping rotisserie league owner prepare for drafts, but it provides great backup material. James includes projections for the upcoming season, but acknowledges that they are less than 100% certain. But then again, what projection is 100% certain? There are the usual intriguing essays on baseball and past statistics for individual players. It's a great companion for the upcoming season.
 Bill James is Hot Air March 22, 2010
Michael Hipius (Pleasantville, NY)
0 out of 7 found this review helpful
Sadly, a few years back, The Sporting News stopped publishing The Baseball Register. The Baseball Register was the gold standard for meat-and-potatoes statistics in baseball- very easy to find information and formulate your own judgements.
Bill James has come along and supplied us with yearly and career records of players, but has added a lot of pompous self-proclaimed "meaningful data". All the additional stuff is absolute junk. It makes it difficult to navigate and find basic information that most fans want to see- fielding averages are not even given. He has a crew of buddies from throughout the country (they aren't representative of the whole country) rate players on defense. If you look at all his different tallies, you would think the World Champion Yankees were a clown team-no one in the infield is rated on the top 10 in fielding, other than Teixeira (4th). His plus/minus system is a subjective rating to determine the range and runs saved for fielding. Pujols is a consistant fielding winner. His 11 errors (significantly high for first base) are not important. Cano, Jeter, and Rodriguez - not even top 10- are you kidding?
Missing amongst all the drivel is the one stat I never see- what are the numbers with hitters when they swing at 3-0 count pitcher or 3-1 pitches? I always hear what a great advantage they have, but I never see the numbers to support the statement. Why not?
Get this book from Amazon for the basis data all fans like and the deep discount, but don't waste your time reading what James has to say. He knows no better than me or you.
 Bill James Handbook March 17, 2010
Jordan A. Dykstra
A must-read for the diehard, number-crunching, baseball enthusiast. Great section of projected stats for pitchers and position players.
Gift for son January 9, 2010
Linda Williams (East Hampton, CT United States)
This was a Christmas present for my son. He was very excited to receive the book.
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