The Book: Playing the Percentages in Baseball

Written by three esteemed baseball statisticians, The Book continues where the legendary Bill James's Baseball Abstracts and Palmer and Thorn's The Hidden Game of Baseball left off more than twenty years ago. Continuing in the grand tradition of sabermetrics, the authors provide a revolutionary way to think about baseball with principles that can be applied at every level, from high school to the major leagues.

Tom Tango, Mitchel Lichtman, and Andrew Dolphin cover topics such as batting and pitching matchups, platooning, the benefits and risks of intentional walks and sacrifices, the legitimacy of alleged "clutch" hitters, and many of baseball's other theories on hitting, fielding, pitching, and even baserunning. They analyze when a strategy is a good idea and when it's a bad idea, and how to more closely watch the "inside" game of baseball.

Whenever you hear an announcer talk about the "unwritten rule" or say that so-and-so is going "by the book" in bringing in a situational substitute, The Book reviews the facts and determines what the real case is. If you want to know what the folks in baseball should be doing, find out in The Book. more

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5/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Oct-02-2008; Best math book on baseball ever.; The authors of "The Book" reveal truths of baseball derived from careful statistical analysis. The clear explanations are such that any person who can understand percentages will gain insight from the book. The conclusions (and data upon...; read full review | report as inappropriate

5/5: From: Amazon; Posted: May-08-2008; Great Book; If you're truly interested in not only what's important in baseball, but how to decide if something is important (IOW, how to decide if someone's research was done properly), then you should read this book. The authors are highly...; read full review | report as inappropriate

2/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Apr-18-2008; I Just Don't Get the Hype; I've been devouring sabermetrics, at least of the mass variety, since I first started reading Bill James in the 80s. The Number 1 thing I learned from Bill is to ask useful questions, then define the parameters, then do the research and...; read full review | report as inappropriate

4/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Dec-04-2007; Authors Illuminate the Guts of Baseball; This is the single most important math-centered analysis of baseball since The Hidden Game of Baseball came out over 20 years ago. I unreservedly recommend it for those already experienced with statistical analysis of baseball (the...; read full review | report as inappropriate

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5/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Oct-02-2008; Best math book on baseball ever.; The authors of "The Book" reveal truths of baseball derived from careful statistical analysis. The clear explanations are such that any person who can understand percentages will gain insight from the book. The conclusions (and data upon...; read full review | report as inappropriate

2/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Apr-18-2008; I Just Don't Get the Hype; I've been devouring sabermetrics, at least of the mass variety, since I first started reading Bill James in the 80s. The Number 1 thing I learned from Bill is to ask useful questions, then define the parameters, then do the research and...; read full review | report as inappropriate