For the fantasy baseball enthusists out there, aside from the must-have Baseball Prospectus Annual, another book that seems to be getting alot of positive chatter is the John Burnson’s Graphical Player 2007 . Here are two positive reviews : [1] [2].
The FanGraphs site has access to some of the projections other than Pecota in an easy to use interface.
For example, I pulled up one player in Jason Schmidt who I am interested in as far as his projections.
Zips : 3.94 ERA 1.30WHIP 183K 8.58 K/9
Chone : 3.70 ERA 1.31.WHIP 172K 7.98 K/9
Marcel : 4.01 ERA 1.33 WHIP 163K 7.97 K/9
Take his name of Jason Schmidt away, the numbers do not indicate an elite pitcher any more.
In my posting the other day – Sternberg Feelin’ Heat – Bill Madden of the NY Daily News commented in his column about the fading Rays payroll. Now, fellow Blogger R.J. Anderson has taken it one step further and has engaged in an email discussion with Mr Madden.
[...] far, I have brought you so far his projections. I have interviewed Marc Nordmadin from Baseball Prospectus and Heater Magazine who was the founder [...]