Winners: How Good Baseball Teams Become Great Ones (and It's Not the Way You Think)

Perry, Dayn

ISBN 10: 0471721743 / ISBN 13: 9780471721741

Editore: John Wiley & Sons First Edition, 2006

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Analyzing records, lineups, defense and pitching staffs of the 124 teams that made it to the playoffs between 1980 and 2003, Perry separates baseball myth from hardball reality.You will have to read the book to find the answers. First Edition with all numbers from 1 to 10 present. Both the non price clipped Dust Jacket and the book are in very good condition. I have more than 200 books on the History of Baseball in stock. Discounts are available when you purchase multiple items on the same order. Codice articolo ABE-1716737441052

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Titolo: Winners: How Good Baseball Teams Become ...

Casa editrice: John Wiley & Sons First Edition

Data di pubblicazione: 2006

Legatura: Hardcover

Condizione: Very Good

Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good

Edizione: 1st Edition

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Face it, your team is a loser. They’re not irredeemably awful—they have a spare handful of elite performers, and there are worse clubs to be found. But your team's playoff chances are fading, and the World Series, well, forget it. You'd like to be a better fan, a better unpaid organizational watchdog. Is the front office making the right decisions over the winter, and at the trade deadline? In WINNERS, Foxsports.com baseball analyst Dayn Perry attempts to answer the following questions: how do baseball teams win? What do they tend to excel at? What do they tend to ignore? In essence: How’d they do that? To cobble together an answer to this question, he's examined each team to make the post-season since 1980, to see what's worked and what hasn't.  What he's found will delight baseball fans of all levels, and cause more than a few arguments at the local sports bar. Who was more valuable to the Yankees last year: Mariano Rivera, the major league leader in saves, or little-known oft-criticized middle-reliever Tom Gordon?  Gordon, and in general closers are waste of money.  Most of the winning teams did it without a lights out game ender.  Also beware of any overpaid, overhyped player whose claim to fame is a league lead in Wins, Stolen Bases, Average, or Fielding Percentage.  (Yes, we're talking about you, Scott Posednick.) MONEYBALL may have convinced a lot of people OBP means everything, but the teams that actually make the playoffs are much better at getting extra base hits than drawing walks.  When they Colorado Rockies are good, it's because of good, old-fashioned ptiching.  Funny and enganging, WINNERS backs up every stat with the story about a first class player (Barry Bonds, Pedro Martinez, George Brett, Rickey Henderson) or a team that does it right (the Braves, the Red Sox, the Yankees).  Sometimes, he even needs to tell stories about those who do it wrong, and make it seem right (Ruben Sierra, Derek Jeter, more than a few Mets teams).   With all the ingredients of a classic of the genre, fans across the country will be clogging the lines of the countriuy's sports radio arguing over the insights gleaned from WINNERS

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Dayn Perry is a regular contributor to FoxSports.com, SportingNews.com and Baseball Prospectus. Besides writing two weekly columns for the Baseball Prospectus Web site, he also helped write the last two editions of ""Baseball Prospectus, "" the bestselling book of its kind. He's written on sports for ""The Miami Herald, Reason, The National Review, The Washington Monthly, "" and ""The Washington Times."" Since 2002, he has also been a Baseball Operations Consultant to the San Diego Padres.