The Scouting Report, 1994

The Scouting Report, 1994

Author: John Dewan

Publisher: Harper Paperbacks

Published: 1994-02

Total Pages: 692

ISBN-13: 9780062732316

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In-depth qualitative analysis and state-of-the-art computer graphics provide the most thorough evaluation of more than 700 major league players and top minor league prospects, featuring each player's strengths, weaknesses, playing styles, experience, potential, stats for 1993 performances, career records, and more. Illustrations.


A Scout's Report

A Scout's Report

Author: George Genovese

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2015-10-14

Total Pages: 253

ISBN-13: 1476618976

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Many in baseball consider the scout to be the most important figure in any organization: It is the scout's work in the high school and college bleachers that unearths future legends. Few have achieved more--and in such grand style--than George Genovese. In a game that values numbers, Genovese's are staggering. No other scout has been responsible for more players in a single lineup, more home runs by players signed or more All-Star and World Series highlights than Genovese. Genovese's eye for talent is unmatched, his advocacy for the players he discovers is unrivaled, and the investment he makes toward their success is a difference maker. This autobiography is the story of his seven decades in baseball as a player, manager and scout.


Scouting and Scoring

Scouting and Scoring

Author: Christopher Phillips

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2021-03-30

Total Pages: 311

ISBN-13: 0691217165

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An in-depth look at the intersection of judgment and statistics in baseball Scouting and scoring are considered fundamentally different ways of ascertaining value in baseball. Scouting seems to rely on experience and intuition, scoring on performance metrics and statistics. In Scouting and Scoring, Christopher Phillips rejects these simplistic divisions. He shows how both scouts and scorers rely on numbers, bureaucracy, trust, and human labor to make sound judgments about the value of baseball players. Tracing baseball’s story from the nineteenth century to today, Phillips explains that the sport was one of the earliest fields to introduce numerical analysis, and new methods of data collection were supposed to enable teams to replace scouting with scoring. But that’s not how things turned out. From the invention of official scorers and Statcast to the creation of the Major League Scouting Bureau, Scouting and Scoring reveals the inextricable connections between human expertise and data science, and offers an entirely fresh understanding of baseball.


The Neyer/James Guide to Pitchers

The Neyer/James Guide to Pitchers

Author: Bill James

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2008-06-16

Total Pages: 500

ISBN-13: 1439103771

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Preeminent baseball analyst Bill James and ESPN.com baseball columnist Rob Neyer compile information on pitches and their origins, nearly two thousand pitchers, and more in this comprehensive guide. Pitchers, the pitches they throw, and how they throw them—they’re the stuff of constant scrutiny, but there's never been anything like a comprehensive source for such information…until now. Bill James and Rob Neyer spent over a decade compiling the centerpiece of this book, the Pitcher Census, which lists specific information for nearly two thousand pitchers, ranging throughout the history of professional baseball. Their guide also includes a dictionary describing virtually every known pitch, biographies of great pitchers who have been overlooked, and top ten lists for fastballs, spitballs, and everything in between. James and Neyer also weigh in on the debate over pitcher abuse and durability, offer a formula for predicting the Cy Young Award winner, and reveal James’s Pitcher Codes. Learn about the origins and development of baseball’s most important pitches and more knuckleballers and submariners than you ever thought existed! Baseball’s action always starts with the pitchers. Begin to understand them and join in on entertaining debates while having a great deal of fun with the history of the game that captivates so many with this one-of-a-kind guide.


Rob Neyer's Big Book of Baseball Lineups

Rob Neyer's Big Book of Baseball Lineups

Author: Rob Neyer

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2003-06-02

Total Pages: 356

ISBN-13: 0743241746

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Presents a series of lineups from each baseball franchise and explores the careers of baseball players both famous and obscure.


Review of the NARSTO Draft Report

Review of the NARSTO Draft Report

Author: United States-Mexico Foundation for Science (FUMEC)

Publisher: National Academies Press

Published: 2002-11-29

Total Pages: 101

ISBN-13: 0309086035

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The report reviews NARSTO's recent report on atmospheric science issues associated with management of airborne particulate matter (PM) to achieve air quality standards. NARSTO is a public-private partnership with members from government, utilities, industry, and academe in Canada, Mexico and the United States that coordinates ozone-related atmospheric science research and assessment.


People's Republic of China, Volumes I and II

People's Republic of China, Volumes I and II

Author: Frank N. Pieke

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2022-03-10

Total Pages: 1040

ISBN-13: 1351761676

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This title was first published in 2002. This two volume set collects in a conveniently accessible form the most influential articles by leading authorities in the study of China. It provides an international reference work, combined with an authoritative introduction by the editor.


Jews on the Move

Jews on the Move

Author: Sidney Goldstein

Publisher: SUNY Press

Published: 1996-01-01

Total Pages: 430

ISBN-13: 9780791427477

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Based on data from the 1990 National Jewish Population Survey, the authors examine the high level of mobility among American Jews and their increasing dispersion throughout the United States, and how this presents new challenges to the national Jewish community.


The Economics of Residential Solid Waste Management

The Economics of Residential Solid Waste Management

Author: Thomas C. Kinnaman

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-10-24

Total Pages: 444

ISBN-13: 1351891022

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The market of municipal solid waste (MSW) collection and disposal has changed substantially over the past thirty years. This study will help guide both newcomers and past contributors through the fundamental aspects of policies designed to reduce the external costs of MSW collection, and the important empirical relationships that, in the end, govern the selection of MSW policies. The International Library of Environmental Economics and Policy explores the influence of economics on the development of environmental and natural resource policy. In a series of twenty-five volumes, the most significant journal essays in key areas of contemporary environmental and resource policy are collected. Scholars who are recognized for their expertise and contribution to the literature in the various research areas serve as volume editors and write essays that provides the context for the collection. Volumes in the series reflect three broad strands of economic research including 1) Natural and Environmental Resources, 2) Policy Instruments and Institutions and 3) Methodology. The editors, in their introduction to each volume, provide a state-of-the-art overview of the topic and explain the influence and relevance of the collected papers on the development of policy. This reference series provides access to the economic literature that has shaped contemporary perspectives on land use analysis and policy.