In the numbers-obsessed sport of baseball, statistics don't
merely record what players, managers, and owners have done.
Properly understood, they can tell us how the teams we root
for could employ better strategies, put more effective
players on the field, and win more games. The revolution in
baseball statistics that began in the 1970s is a
controversial subject that professionals and fans alike
argue over without end. Despite this fundamental change in
the way we watch and understand the sport, no one has
written the book that reveals, across every area of strategy
and management, how the best practitioners of statistical
analysis in baseball-people like Bill James, Billy Beane,
and Theo Epstein-think about numbers and the game.
Baseball Between the Numbers is that book. In separate
chapters covering every aspect of the game, from hitting,
pitching, and fielding to roster construction and the
scouting and drafting of players, the experts at Baseball
Prospectus examine the subtle, hidden aspects of the game,
bring them out into the open, and show us how our favorite
teams could win more games. This is a book that every fan,
every follower of sports radio, every fantasy player, every
coach, and every player, at every level, can learn from and
enjoy.
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