The Bill James Handbook 2020

Bill James, Baseball Info Solutions

• Publisher: ACTA Sports
• eBook ISBN:
  9780879460266
• Year: 2019

The first-to-market, most comprehensive, insightful, and groundbreaking annual baseball book on the market. A must-have book or gift for every true fan, with lifetime statistics and leader boards for every player in the major leagues and projections for how they might do in the future.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Table of Contents
• Introduction
• Who Would the Public Want To Go Into the Hall of Fame
• The Aesthetic Issues : Or : 50 Ways to Stop Baseball from Being Swallowed up by Home Runs and Strikeouts
• Sneak Peek at The Fielding Bible – Volume V
• Hall of Fame Monitor
• The Hall of Fame Value Standard
• Fathers and Sons
• Baseball Looks a Little Different in Japan
• RBI Percentages
• Starting Pitcher Rankings
• Team Statistics
• Team Efficiency Summary
• The Fielding Bible Awards 2019
• Defensive Runs Saved Leaders
• Strike Zone Runs Saved
• Shift Update
• Hits Lost and Gained to the Shift
• Four-Outfielder Alignments
• Home Run Robberies
• 2019 Career Register
• Fielding Statistics
• Runs Saved Multi-Year Summary
• Injury Information
• Baserunning
• Stolen Base Attempt Times
• Pitchers’ Repertoires
• Relief Pitching
• Openers
• Pitchers Fielding & Holding Runners, and Hitters Pitching
• Hitters Pitching
• Lords of the Flies
• Hard Hit Balls
• Pinch Hitting
• Manufactured Runs, Productive Outs & Unproductive Outs
• Managers Record
• Ballparks and Park Indices
• Lefty/Righty Statistics
• 2019 Leader Boards
• Win Shares
• Instant Replay
• Introduction to the 2020 Projections for Hitters
• Introduction to the Pitcher’s Projections
• Career Targets
• The 300-Win Candidates
• Baseball Glossary
• Minor League Abbreviation Key
• Baseball Info Solutions
• Acknowledgments