Two months is a brief piece of a baseball season to be basing sweeping pronouncements on, yet I’ll step in front of the gale and do it. One of the strangest things I noted in setting this up, looking for the ten best teams, is how exactly ten teams have seperated themselves from the general…
Rany takes the easy ones; we want to cover a couple of interesting guys you may not have heard as much about: Adam Riggs, a longtime second baseman in the Dodger chain with a little pop, and Octavio Dotel, one of many pitching prospects around the minors who could be great, or could be injured…
This year’s BP includes a new way of measuring fielding. Significantly, it is, to my knowledge, the first book that has attempted to apply fielding measures to minor league players. To give everyone a better idea of how the fielding system works and, most importantly for judging current players, has worked in the past, I’m…
The Orthopedic Award goes to those pitchers and organizations who pushed their arms to the highest limits in the past season. Those limits are determined by considering multiple factors, including Batters faced. More innings, more batters faced, more pitches thrown equals more strain. Age. Younger pitchers, below the age of 25, are less capable of…
When we first started cranking out the Baseball Prospectus a few years ago, our goal was to produce a top-notch baseball guide. We want to produce something which gives fans a solid grasp of the abilities and accomplishments of the players at both the major league and minor league levels. While we sought from the…