Baseball Prospectus 2013

The bestselling annual baseball preview from the smartest analysts in the business The essential guide to the 2013 baseball season is on deck now, and whether you're a fan or fantasy player?or both?you won't be properly informed without it. Baseball Prospectus 2013 brings together an elite group of analysts to provide the definitive look at the upcoming season in critical essays and commentary on the thirty teams, their managers, and more than sixty players and prospects from each team.

• Contains critical essays on each of the thirty teams and player comments for some sixty players for each of those teams
• Projects each player's stats for the coming season using the groundbreaking PECOTA projection system, which has been called "perhaps the game's most accurate projection model" (Sports Illustrated)
• From Baseball Prospectus, America's leading provider of statistical analysis for baseballNow in its eighteenth edition, this New York Times bestselling insider's guide remains hands down the most authoritative and entertaining book of its kind.

Inhalt
Foreword vii
Jeff Luhnow

Preface ix
King Kaufman and Cecilia M. Tan

Statistical Introduction xi
Colin Wyers

2012: The Year in Sabermetrics xvii
Colin Wyers

Teams

Arizona Diamondbacks 1

Atlanta Braves 18

Baltimore Orioles 35

Boston Red Sox 53

Chicago White Sox 71

Chicago Cubs 88

Cincinnati Reds 106

Cleveland Indians 125

Colorado Rockies 142

Detroit Tigers 159

Houston Astros 175

Kansas City Royals 194

Los Angeles Angels 211

Los Angeles Dodgers 227

Miami Marlins 247

Milwaukee Brewers 266

Minnesota Twins 284

New York Mets 302

New York Yankees 320

Oakland Athletics 338

Philadelphia Phillies 355

Pittsburgh Pirates 372

San Diego Padres 391

San Francisco Giants 410

Seattle Mariners 427

St. Louis Cardinals 443

Tampa Bay Rays 460

Texas Rangers 480

Toronto Blue Jays 497

Washington Nationals 515

Sabermetrician Wanted, Must Have MFA 533
Russell A Carleton

The Baseball Prospectus Top 101 Prospects 537
Jason Parks

Team Name Codes 549

PECOTA Leaderboards 553

Contributors 559

Acknowledgments 563

Index 565