Hardball retrospective : evaluating scouting and development outcomes for the modern-era franchises / Derek Bain ; edited by Marianne Landrum ; foreword by Don Daglow.

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Bain, Derek [Browse]
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Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
[United States] : Tuatara Software, [2015]
Description
435 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm

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    "Would your favorite baseball team make the playoffs if player X had not been traded? Imagine your team's roster from any particular year. Remove all of the players that your team acquired through trades and free agency. Would you be able to field a competitive team? Now we will re-populate the roster with every player that the organization originally drafted and signed. Yes, we will include undrafted free agents and foreign players who signed with their first Major League team, as well. How does the team stack up now? Is the club better or worse that the squad that you imagined at first? In Hardball Retrospective, I placed every ballplayer in the modern era (from 1901-present) on their original teams. Using a variety of advanced statistics and methods, I generated revised standings for each season based entirely on the performance of each team's 'original' players. I discuss every team's 'original' players and seasons at length along with organizational performance with respect to the Amateur Draft (or First-Year Player Draft), amateur free agent signings and other methods of player acquisition. Season standings, WAR and Win Shares totals for the 'original' teams are compared against the real-time or 'actual' team results to assess each franchise's scouting, development and general management skills"--Back cover.
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    Also available as an e-book.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references (page 435).
    Contents
    • Foreword
    • Preface
    • Acknowledgments
    • Methodology
    • Terminology
    • The amateur draft
    • Player development
    • Franchise reports
    • Charts and leader boards
    • Bibliography.
    ISBN
    • 9781508790990 ((paperback))
    • 150879099X ((paperback))
    OCLC
    913494529
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