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Simply put, The Bill James Handbook 2008 is the best and most complete annual baseball reference guide available today. Avid stat fans look forward to it every year, and casual baseball fans enjoy its comprehensive content. This book contains a myriad of stats on every hit, pitch and catch in Major League Baseball's 2007 season.
New and key features include:
- Exclusive! Fielding Bible Awards
- Improved! Manufactured Runs Analysis
- New! Young Talent Inventory
- Expanded! Manager's Record
- Improved! Baserunning Analysis
- Career data for every 2007 major leaguer
- Pitcher Projections
- Hitter Projections
- Team Efficiency Summary
- Player Win Shares
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Errata
The Fielding Bible Awards introduction quotes statistics for a few pitchers and catchers. Some of those statistics were researched a couple of weeks before the end of the season, based on games through Thursday, September 13, 2007. The errata show all the statistics correct through the end of the regular season as we intended. Click here to see the PDF file (requires Adobe Reader).
 Bill James has been writing about baseball and compiling reference books about baseball since 1975. He is currently the Senior Baseball Operations Advisor for the Boston Red Sox. |
 Baseball Info Solutions is an innovator in the collection, interpretation, commercialization and dissemination of in-depth baseball statistics. The president of BIS is Steve Moyer and the ownership group includes Moyer, Bill James, and John Dewan, the founder and former CEO of STATS, Inc. |
