The Unwritten Book is Finally Written!

An in-depth analysis of:

• The sacrifice bunt.
• The intentional base on balls.
• Optimizing a batting lineup.
• Hot and cold streaks.
• Clutch performance.
• Platooning strategies.
• Batter/pitcher matchups.
• Much more.

A must-read for any coach, manager, or front office executive. The casual to the obsessed baseball fan will also find this book jam-packed with the most complete analysis of baseball strategies ever compiled in one volume.

Written by three esteemed sabermetricians, The Book continues where the legendary Bill James Abstracts and Palmer and Thorn's The Hidden Game of Baseball left off over twenty years ago. A revolutionary way to think about baseball, with principles that can be applied at every level, from high school to the major leagues.

Excerpts from The Book

Batting Order: If nothing else, we will consider this book a true success if all thirty teams were to never put a below-average hitter in the second spot. While the proper strategy will only gain you a few runs, why do something that is otherwise clearly wrong?

The Sacrifice Bunt: If you were to ask almost any manager whether he would rather advance the runner to second in exchange for an out, or have the batter attempt a sacrifice, how do you think he would respond? If you answered, “Take the guaranteed sacrifice,” we think that you would be right. What a poor decision that would be. It's not even close!

Batter/Pitcher Matchups: Luis Gonzalez, against the one guy he owned in the previous eighteen PA, the one guy that he took to the cleaners more often than any other pitcher he's faced, the one pitcher that any hitter has taken advantage of more than any other pitcher in baseball, crumbled in his sight for the next twelve PA।

The Unwritten Book is Finally Written!