The Book: Playing the Percentages in Baseball
by Tom M. Tango, Mitchel Lichtman, Andrew Dolphin
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Author: Andrew Dolphin, Mitchel Lichtman, Tom M. TangoForeword: Pete Palmer
Edition: Paperback
Published: 2007-03-10
ISBN: 1597971294
Number of pages: 384
Publisher: Potomac Books Inc.
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Book Review: Great Book
Summary: 5 Stars
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 respected researchers who have taken everyday baseball subjects and shown us what makes sense.
I'm not sure which presumptions Larry below found untenable, nor why he found it difficult to read, but you shouldn't let that dissuade you from reading this truly innovative book.
Summary of 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.
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