Baseball Prospectus 2007 annual (and author tour)

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Greetings, true believers! Steve Goldman of your Baseball Prospectus 2007 editorial crew here to draw your attention to our events page, where we’ve added a plethora of details concerning our annual spring pilgramage (some would call it our Vernal Equinox schlep) to towns and cities across the land to spread good cheer, sign some books, and get free flavored coffee beverages from your local bookseller. A splendid time is guaranteed for all.

In addition, the Yogi Berra Museum and Learning Center in Montclair, New Jersey has been generous enough to ask to convene another BP mega-panel. It’s a wonderful place to think about basebal and view a true-to-life bust of Casey Stengel sculped by George Weiss’s wife Hazel! Perhaps that last detail only matters to me.

If you don’t see your town, village, settlement, city listed among our tour dates, in all seriousness go to your local Borders or Barnes & Noble and demand that they invite us. If they invite us, we will come.

http://www.baseballprospectus.com/events/

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 2 February 2007 18:46 (nineteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

About a week to go til the book!

One of you suckers in NYC with a car will surely drive out to the mega-BP-author appearance at the Berra Museum on March 24. Right?

― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 21 February 2007 21:06 (nineteen years ago)

GOT IT at Chelsea B&N.

― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 1 March 2007 14:20 (nineteen years ago)

blurb calls Angels ace John "Capitalist" Lackey.

― Dr Morbius, Friday, 2 March 2007 14:44 (nineteen years ago)

Rob Neyer wrote the Oakland chapter.

― Dr Morbius, Friday, 9 March 2007 21:28 (nineteen years ago)

Or part of it anyway. BP seems very coy on the authorship point.

― Alex in SF, Friday, 9 March 2007 21:41 (nineteen years ago)

hah, the NYC event on the 22nd has been moved to Lerner Hall @Columbia! Proper Ivy League statheadism. Who's going with me, or do I have to meet my cousin at the Yogi Museum?

― Dr Morbius, Monday, 12 March 2007 17:36 (nineteen years ago)

The chapter on the Milwaukee Brewers in this book , spends a lot of time fretting over Bill Hall going to center field. This was an issue decided well in advance of spring training for anyone who knows !

― Dimension 5ive, Monday, 12 March 2007 18:00 (nineteen years ago)

Book was put to bed in January. Also, can't you fret over something that's been decided?

Unfortunate glitch: All the players around 37 or older have 12/31/69 listed as their birthdate. (The numerical ages look correct, tho.)

Also, look at Julio Franco's statistical comparables.

― Dr Morbius, Monday, 12 March 2007 19:10 (nineteen years ago)

I've looked at Franco , haha again. If you read the Milwaukee entry you will know what I mean , too much of it is taken up with the Bill Hall infield / outfield non - controversy. According to everyone I know who likes that team , this was decided long before January and was never a controversy though !

― Dimension 5ive, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 12:55 (nineteen years ago)

Columia U panel tomorrow at 6pm...

― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 14:39 (nineteen years ago)

Gah just when you are prepared to write someone off as a total dumbass he surprises you.

― Alex in SF, Thursday, 22 March 2007 21:22 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, despite him being a rah-rah Christian he seems a good fella after all. WTF, me, liking Curt Schilling.

― Dimension 5ive, Friday, 23 March 2007 02:19 (nineteen years ago)

There are very few pure heroes or villains, even in the world of baseball. Christina Kahrl even had some kind words for Murray Chass last night (not regarding stat analysis, obv).

Gleaned last night: Steve Goldman wrote the Mets and Yanks chapters, Jay Jaffe the Red Sox and Dodgers. There was also a debate over whether Adam Everett's dazzling glove offsets his Belanger-like bat (Jaffe yes, Goldman no, esp on an NL team that's also playing Ausmus).

― Dr Morbius, Friday, 23 March 2007 13:52 (nineteen years ago)

fwiw, christina kahrl also did a fantasy baseball q & a in the post's tablopid edition this am. i unfortunately missed the dc q & a for the 2007 annual.

― j.q higgins, Friday, 23 March 2007 14:04 (nineteen years ago)

one month passes...

Finally got this. Maybe it's me, or my general malaise, but the writing (& some of the analysis) is kinda annoying me. They make it sound as if the Matt Clement signing was dumb from Day One (& the Derek Lowe signing was just as brilliant). They heap tons of praise on Mike Scoscia while failing to mention that his run-happy ways have killed tons of Angel rallies. And there're probably even more instances that got my goat, but I can't recall them.

― David R., Thursday, 26 April 2007 14:54 (nineteen years ago)

but, bottom line is that bp owes you at least one goat, but possibly more?

― j.q higgins, Thursday, 26 April 2007 14:57 (nineteen years ago)

I'd rather have TACOS.

― David R., Thursday, 26 April 2007 15:03 (nineteen years ago)

There was something on the site just this week about Scioscia running the team out of rallies, I think? is than what you mean by run-happy?

The "they" is pretty variable as whoever writes a team chapter may not be in the majority on the staff re whatever analytic issues.

I thought the stat breakdowns of what tactics managers employ were fun.

― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 26 April 2007 15:18 (nineteen years ago)

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