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Amazon.com: buying info: Baseball Prospectus 2001 (Baseball Prospectus, 2001)

I just got my copy of Baseball Prospectus yesterday and no I am not anonymous from Philadelphia leaving a 3-star review. I'll probably write a review at some point when I can get through more of it.

First thing I read was the two PAP articles. To summarize, Rany Jazayerli admitted that there was no evidence that showed that PAP predicted anything at all. He and Keith Woolner then did a couple of studies and came up with PAP^3, which is (pitches - 100)^3 and stress = sum(PAP^3)/sum(pitches). I'll comment on their arguments in the near future and I'll look forward to hearing what people have to say. Note that any comments will not be a personal attack and will be as Rob Neyer suggested we needed--"peer review". I would also encourage Keith to put the data from the article on their website. Even just name, year, pitches, PAP^3 and GS would be very helpful to those interested in looking at his results.