It’s The Hardball Times 2007 Season Preview -- The Hardball Times

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THT 2007 Season Preview: I'm published!
Published 3/6/2007 by JinAZ at On Baseball and the Reds
... I'm delighted to announce that

THT 2007 Season Preview
Published 3/6/2007 by Jeff at Lookout Landing: Front Page Posts
... Go buy it now!

Tuesday Quick Hits - Is It Something About The Name Michael?
Published 3/6/2007 by JD Arney <info@redreporter.com> at Red Reporter: Front Page Posts
... for being published in the Hardball Times 2007 Season Preview (which you can order here). JinAz wrote all of the Reds stuff, so I'm sure it'll be a good buy, and I'll be picking up a copy. It certainly can't hurt to have a Baseball Prospectus competitor out there when it comes to preseason annuals, and I think this qualifies. I've never bought one of the Hardball Times season wrap ups, possibly because I'm not usually in the mood to relive a Reds season once it's finished, so I'm glad to see them starting a preseason guide.

community projection results: yadi and izzy
Published 3/6/2007 by lboros <info@vivaelbirdos.com> at Viva El Birdos: Front Page Posts
... The Hardball Times is putting out its first preseason preview --- a companion to the Hardball Times Annual, with all-new content. ordering information is here. the meat of the book consists of 3-year projections for current players (including top minor leaguers) and team-by-team previews --- quick-hiting capsules formatted along the lines of bill james' old "team in a box" summaries. i wrote the st louis preview; here's a teaser:

Sure beats working
Published 3/6/2007 by Jim McLennan <info@azsnakepit.com> at AZ Snakepit: Front Page Posts
... for $15.95 plus shipping. See here for more info.

THT Season Preview
Published 3/6/2007 by Dave at U.S.S. Mariner
... Then let me suggest plunking that $9 down on The 2007 Hardball Times Season Preview, available as a PDF download or as a real book for $15 (plus shipping). This new effort from THT is a complement to their excellent annual, which I’ve done some writing for in the past. However, I have no affiliation to the preview whatsoever, so buying this doesn’t help me at all. I just think they do great work and we owe them a lot for the knowledge they’ve added to the baseball community over the past few years, and supporting them through purchases like this helps keeps their doors open, which is good for all of us.

Hardball Times Preview Book
Published 3/6/2007 by Tangotiger (tangotiger@yahoo.com) at THE BOOK--Playing The Percentages In Baseball
... http://www.hardballtimes.com/main/article/its-the-hardball-times-2007-season-preview/

Bill James Projections - Updated
Published 3/6/2007 by David Appelman at FanGraphs Baseball
... While we’re on the topic of projections, I’d like to give a quick shout-out to the new Hardball Times 2007 Season Preview. Besides the great commentary on teams from many of your favorite bloggers, it has player projections through 2009. I’m still digging in, but it’s full of fun and useful stuff.

THT Season Preview
Published 3/6/2007 by mkwng at Let's Go Tribe!: Front Page Posts
... The Hardball Times has just announced their first ever Season Preview book.  From the site:

Plugged, and unplugged
Published 3/6/2007 by Rox Girl at Purple Row: Front Page Posts
... Alright, I'm not going to recommend the following book for it's Rockies section, which was written by some half-witted blogger chick who seems to have stolen a lot of my stuff.., but if you want to know about the rest of baseball this season, then I definitely suggest getting The Hardball Times 2007 Season Preview.

BASEBALL: Buy The Book!
Published 3/7/2007 by Baseball Crank at Baseball Crank
... It's the Hardball Times 2007 Season Preview - and yours truly authored the team comment on the Mets. As you can see from THT's list, I'm in illustrious company. The book also has projections and other stuff I haven't had a chance to digest myself. You can buy it in book form or downloadable 184-page PDF.

THT Projections: A (Quick) Closer Look
Published 3/7/2007 by David Appelman at FanGraphs Baseball
... Earlier this week the much anticipated Hardball Times 2007 Season Preview was released, and with it a brand new projection system. I recently took a look at Bill James, CHONE, ZiPS, and the Marcel projection systems to see

Looking forward...
Published 3/7/2007 by Jim McLennan at AZ Snakepit: Front Page Posts
... Had a chance to scope out the Hardball Times projections for the D-backs this year, and there are some interesting points. If you want to see the whole set, you'll have to buy the book, but here are some highlights that stood out from the data.

Hardball times
Published 3/8/2007 by Ed Ryan at Mets Fever
... Hardball Times is releasing their first ever Season preview book, go to their site to purchase the book:

TCR Friday Notes
Published 3/9/2007 by Rob G. at The Cub Reporter (TCR) | A Chicago Cubs Blog -
... The good folks at Hardball Times have completed their first foray into pre-season previewing and were smart enough to ask yours truly to contribute. You can purchase a PDF download for the low cost of $9.00 or get the print version for $15.95. It’s 184 pages that includes three-year fielding, pitching and hitting projections, fantasy advice and a team-by-team look by some of the best bloggers in the business (and somehow I snuck in there). I’d appreciate greatly if you guys picked up a copy.

Ten questions with Chris Constancio
Published 3/13/2007 by Jim McLennan <info@azsnakepit.com> at AZ Snakepit: Front Page Posts
... Trust by now you've already picked up your copy of the Hardball Times pre-season annual, and are finding it as fascinating a read as we are. Though the real test, of course, will come at the end of the year, when we blow the dust of the projections and see how well they stood up! In the meantime, however, we had a chance to ask some questions of co-author Chris Constancio. He's a statistician who has written for the HardBall Times since 2006, and developed firstinning.com in 2005 as the first web site to provide split statistics, batted ball information, and three-year projections for minor league players. He also works to provide data for a major league organization. We quizzed him both about the projections, and Arizona'a farm system...

Winks and Links
Published 3/19/2007 by Rich at Baseball Analysts
... The Hardball Times 2007 Season Preview is now available. It can be purchased as a

Second Base 2008: Calling back Kaz-Mat?
Published 3/19/2007 by Rox Girl <info@purplerow.com> at Purple Row: Front Page Posts
... So what is that? That, my friends, is the power of the Hardball Times 2007 Preview.., with a little help from a BP subscription. Anyway most of the above projections are from the THT preview for the 2008 season. The only exceptions are for Kent and Herrera, where there was no projection in the THT book, so I went by the good old standby, PECOTA.

A Belated Hello From The Cactus League
Published 3/19/2007 by JP at Reds (and Blues)
... Any available computer time I managed to mooch was spent pouring over the digital version of The Hardball Times 2007 Season Preview.. Once I return to the sanctity of California, I will have a further review on what appears to be an excellent publication (

Items of Interest
Published 3/20/2007 by Rob G. at The Cub Reporter (TCR) | A Chicago Cubs Blog -
... - Hardball Times uses their projection numbers that you can find in their preseason book (including an article by yours truly) to try and

Cubs 2007 Season In Review
Published 3/23/2007 by Cubnut at The Cub Reporter (TCR) | A Chicago Cubs Blog -
... The THT numbers come from their most excellent season preview book featuring the work of one Rob G.; the Baseball Prospectus numbers come from

Charlie's THT preview
Published 4/2/2007 by Bones at Honest Wagner
... Speaking of THT, the THT 2007 preview is still available. The bloggers who contributed don't make a cent, but are trying to help out the good people at

Narron fired
Published 7/2/2007 by Justin at On Baseball and the Reds
... If I was feeling ambitious, I might try to assemble some intriguing stats that somehow evaluate (or at least describe) the way Narron managed. But I'm not. So instead I'll just refer to what I wrote in the Hardball Times 2007 Season Preview: ...

A Guy Named Pete (Not Named Rose)
Published 8/27/2007 by Justin at On Baseball and the Reds
... A 0.480 team is certainly a heck of a lot better than what we had before, and is closer to how most of us expected the Reds to play this season (I predicted a 0.500 year in the Hardball Times Preview). Unfortunately, this also indicates that it's probably rather unlikely that the Reds can continue to play 0.600 ball for the rest of the season, so we may be disappointed if we start to allow ourselves a bit of hope. ...

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