It’s the Hardball Times Season Preview 2008!
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Richard F Koch +1will it be available on pdf again this year?-
David Gassko Sorry, there's only going to be a physical version this time around.-
Teddy44 Is the SS available now for those that have pre-ordered?
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Hardball Times’ Season Preview
Published 2/8/2008 by John Beamer at Chop-n-Change
... of content include previews of each team, detailed player projections and player commentary.
In addition there are also a handful of essays about fantasy baseball and player evaluation.
Why am I telling you this? As you may have guessed yours truly has penned the essay on the Braves.
If you are interested in buying the preview book you can buy it here: http://www.actasports.com/detail.html?id=018
For those wavering check here are some teasers. ...
(Don't) Steal This Book
Published 2/8/2008 by Chris Needham at Capitol Punishment
... coming season. It has projections for bazillions of players and little nuggets of goodness about your favorite players... and Mike Bacsik. The good people at THT (despite their better judgment) asked me to contribute this year, and I rambled on for 15,000 words or so about our favorite team and its star and non-star players... and Mike Bacsik. I even came up with some original things to say that you haven't heard me say over and over and over (such as, "Mike Bacsik stinks"). There's more information about the book here , including how to order it, and information about a few ...
Off to Italy
Published 2/8/2008 by Will at Will's Title is Too Long
... ’s replacement in writing the Twins chapter for The Hardball Times Series Preview . Of course, that leaves me with some insanely huge shoes to fill, but I think I was up to it. David Gassko recently put up sample portions of the ...
Downtime, Family Trees, Hardball Times Book
Published 2/8/2008 by Geoff Young at Knuckle Curve - Baseball News
... but I think it’s fun.
Finally, I’m pleased to announce that the Hardball Times Season Preview 2008 is almost upon us. I contributed the chapter on the San Diego Padres, so there may be some bias here, but I think we’ve got a pretty rockin’ book this year. If you don’t believe me (then why are you reading my stuff, but that’s a different story), here’s my esteemed colleague David Gassko to tell you more:
It’s the Hardball Times Season Preview 2008!
The Hardball Times Season Preview ...
Friday Links (8 Feb 08)
Published 2/8/2008 by Geoff Young at Ducksnorts
... , and it’s almost here. Why do you care? Read these ...
Hardball Times Preview Book
Published 2/8/2008 by Tangotiger (tangotiger@yahoo.com) at THE BOOK--Playing The Percentages In Baseball
Here are the details. If you haven’t made any THT purchases, I would suggest making one.
I see THT very much PBS-style: they are fairly non-profit, any money they get goes into the writers, R&D, or getting data. This book has basically a who’s who of team bloggers, so it’s a great thing to support.
Studes could decide to turn THT into his own personal moneymaker, and for some reason, chooses not to. I wouldn’t begrudge him if he did, but as long as he doesn’t, it’s extra reason ...
The Hardball Times Season Preview
Published 2/8/2008 by Pat at Where have you gone, Andy Van Slyke?
... . I should warn you that I'm pretty biased in this recommendation because I wrote the Pirates' chapter of the book. In fact, they got bloggers to write previews for each team, and that's all kinds of awesome. David Gassko has a full preview of the book here, some interesting tidbits from it ...
Buy This Book: Hardball Times 2008 Season Preview
Published 2/8/2008 by battlekow <info@brewcrewball.com> at Brew Crew Ball
... It's an eminently worthy competitor to BP's annual; if you want to know more, THT has provided a general introduction to what the book is, as well as a ...
The Hardball Times Season Preview 2008
Published 2/8/2008 by Jeff <jbingham@gmail.com> at Lookout Landing
Buy it. Book summary 10 things David Gassko learned from reading it Sample chapter (Red Sox) If you've ever thought to yourself "I should make a little donation to Jeff for all his hard work," spend that money on this book instead. And if you haven't thought that, on account of being an ungrateful son of a bitch, you should still spend some money on this book anyway, because THT rocks, and they deserve your patronage. Last year's downloadable .pdf volume was already damn good, and now not only will you be able to get a physical book ...
THT Season Preview 2008
Published 2/9/2008 by Justin at On Baseball and the Reds
... It's going to be fun to watch this kid develop.The combined efforts of myself and 29 other authors is a 240-page book containing team essays and comments on roughly 900 players written by the people who live and die with their teams every single day. Add to that an improved, sophisticated 3-year projection system by Gassko and Constancio, and you've got a heck of a resource to keep handy throughout the 2008 season. David Gassko has posted a more detailed overview of the book here, as well as excerpts from one of the team ...
The Hardball Times 2008 Season Preview
Published 2/9/2008 by Lisa Gray at The Astros Dugout
... has just been completed and is now available. As David Gassko, one of the editors explains, “This year’s effort includes 240 pages of team essays, player comments for almost 900 different players, projections, and other goodies. The team chapters are written by bloggers and THT writers who follow their team every day, and the result is the kind of commentary you can’t get from just looking at the numbers or some news stories.” And of course, “mind-bending, cutting-edge stats” for all your fantasy needs. Yes, I DO mean ...
The Hardball Times 2008 Season Preview
Published 2/10/2008 by Mike Pindelski at The Bard's Room
... The Hardball Times 2008 Season Preview.
Having purchased it last year, I can let you all know it’s well worth the $17.95.
Team essays, player profiles and previews of each team are all provided. Plus, I wrote the White Sox chapter of the book.
If you’re interested in buying, here’s the link:
http://www.actasports.com/detail.html?id=018
Still not convinced?
Here you can take a look at the overview of the book:
http://www.hardballtimes.com/main/article/its-the-hardball-times-season-preview-2008/
Ten ...
Hardball Times Season Preview 2008
Published 2/11/2008 by Brian at TigerBlog
... Sometime in the next couple of weeks, the Hardball Times Season Preview 2008 will be hitting the shelves. If you bought the inaugural edition last year, you’ll find a ton of new things in this latest installment. You’ll get projections like in last year’s book but you’ll also find more detailed on your informtion on your favorite teams including player capsules. I was fortunate to write the Tigers section, which with the anticipation of the 2008 season mounting, was fun to do. If you really want to help out the Hardball Times site, ...
[HARDBALL TIMES 2008 PREVIEW] The Hardball Times Season Preview 2008 Is Now Available
Published 2/11/2008 by The Professor at Rays Index
The fine group over at The Hardball Times have just released their 2008 Season Preview. This year’s effort includes 240 pages of team essays, player comments for almost 900 different players, projections, and other goodies. We’ve adopted Bill James’ “Team-in-a-Box” format for the essays and tried to maintain a similarly short and incisive style in the player comments.For some reason, the editors have once again asked us to write the preview for the Tampa Bay Rays. While we do ...
Bullet Points: Roster Moves, Book Club, Today’s Congressional Hearings
Published 2/13/2008 by Cory Humes at Seamless Baseball
... . I ordered their annual for the first time this past winter, and I’m still leafing through all the baseball deliciousness. Their list of contributors is a who’s who of blogging, as usual. ...
Consensus Projecting: Matt Holliday
Published 2/15/2008 by Rox Girl <info@purplerow.com> at Purple Row
You know, several blogs do a Community Projection sort of thing, and even though I have a lot of respect for most of the bloggers who do this, I always thought that the concept was kind of dumb and certainly flawed. We're emotionally invested in these people, so biases will always enter into our projections unless we take them straight from a Season Preview book (may I humbly suggest you purchase this one and tell them how great their Rockies section is) or other spreadsheet and really, why wouldn't we just look at the original spreadsheet for that? And then people put down a ...
[2008 TAMPA BAY RAYS] The Mathematical Definition Of "The Rays Are Getting Warmer"
Published 3/26/2008 by The Professor at Rays Index
... the "The Mathematical Definition of "Getting Warmer". The good folks over at Replacement Level Yankees Weblog have finished their annual mathematical projections of the 2008 season. In short they run 1000 simulations for the 2008 season using player projections from six different sources including Dan Szymborski's ZiPS, Baseball Prospectus's PECOTA, Diamond Mind, Sean Smith's CHONE system, The Hardball Times and their own CAIRO. Last ...
