Brent Hershey

Ron Shandler

Ray Murphy

Brandon Kruse

The industry's longest-running publication for baseball analysts and fantasy leaguers, Ron Shandler's Baseball Forecaster, published annually since 1986, is the first book to approach prognostication by breaking performance down into its component parts. Rather than predicting batting average, for instance, this resource looks at the elements of skill that make up any given batter's ability to distinguish between balls and strikes, his propensity to make contact with the ball, and what happens when he makes contact—reverse engineering those skills back into batting average. The result is an unparalleled forecast of baseball abilities and trends for the upcoming season and beyond.

Ron Shandler's 2021 Baseball Forecaster

The industry's longest-running publication for baseball analysts and fantasy leaguers, the 2014 Baseball Forecaster, published annually since 1986, is the first book to approach prognostication by breaking performance down into its component parts. Rather than predicting batting average, for instance, this resource looks at the elements of skill that make up any given batter's ability to distinguish between balls and strikes, his propensity to make contact with the ball, and what happens when he makes contact—reverse engineering those skills back into batting average. The result is an unparalleled forecast of baseball abilities and trends for the upcoming season and beyond.

An Encyclopedia of Fanalytics

2015 Baseball Forecaster

The story of a Detroit Free Press paperboy from the workingclass neighborhoods of Hamtramck, Michigan. On his twelfth birthday, November 20, 1971, Joe Pakotas bolts an angry household and escapes to Ann Arbor to watch the great Billy Taylor, hero of Saturday radio broadcasts, play in the Michigan-Ohio State game. The game takes on a transforming resonance, in which flight from hopelessness becomes a trip to the Rose Bowl. Working across the country with a wildcat crew of magazine subscription grifters, Pakotas finds his way to California, via Wyoming and a refugee named Nancy Nguyen. On the West Coast he discovers the Pasadena curse, hardscrabble life with the Ramirez family in the central valley, Catholic high school, and finally winds up in real trouble, becoming a reporter. Of sorts. And still manages to chase down the unnamed sources, in the heart, of some bad ink that threatens to consume his boyhood idol, and himself. Spanning the decade of the 1970s and the American continent, Empire & Victory is a literary adventure in the spirit of Huck Finn, offering a little less wisdom and a good deal more recklessness than even Tom Sawyer might abide.

A Novel

Empire & Victory

For more than 35 years, the very best in baseball predictions and statistics The industry's longest-running publication for baseball analysts and fantasy leaguers, Ron Shandler's Baseball Forecaster, published annually since 1986, is the first book to approach prognostication by breaking performance down into its component parts. Rather than predicting batting average, for instance, this resource looks at the elements of skill that make up any given batter's ability to distinguish between balls and strikes, his propensity to make contact with the ball, and what happens when he makes contact—reverse engineering those skills back into batting average. The result is an unparalleled forecast of baseball abilities and trends for the upcoming season and beyond.

& Encyclopedia of Fanalytics

Ron Shandler's 2022 Baseball Forecaster

Contains profiles of major league players, statistics, and predictions for the 2014 season.

And Encyclopedia of Fanalytics

2014 Baseball Forecaster

If You Felt Like I Did You'd Start Running

Rod Truesdell

The industry's longest-running publication for baseball analysts and fantasy leaguers, the 2013 Baseball Forecaster, published annually since 1986, is the first book to approach prognostication by breaking performance down into its component parts. Rather than predicting batting average, for instance, this resource looks at the elements of skill that make up any given batter’s ability to distinguish between balls and strikes, his propensity to make contact with the ball, and what happens when he makes contact—reverse engineering those skills back into batting average. The result is an unparalleled forecast of baseball abilities and trends for the upcoming season and beyond.

Ray Murphy

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