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Baseball Prospectus (BP) is an organization that publishes a website, BaseballProspectus.com, devoted to the sabermetric analysis of baseball. BP has a staff of regular columnists and provides advanced statistics as well as player and team performance projections on the site.
Christina Kahrl is one of the co-founders of Baseball Prospectus.She is the former executive editor of the think tank's website, BaseballProspectus.com, [1] the former managing editor for their annual publication, former writer and editor for ESPN.com, and is currently sports editor of the San Francisco Chronicle.
Keith Woolner (born c. 1968) [1] is an author for Baseball Prospectus and is the creator of the statistic Value Over Replacement Player (VORP). [2] VORP is acknowledged by the sabermetrics community as one of the key concepts in the analysis of a player's performance and market valuation.
PECOTA, an acronym for Player Empirical Comparison and Optimization Test Algorithm, [1] is a sabermetric system for forecasting Major League Baseball player performance. The word is a backronym based on the name of journeyman major league player Bill Pecota, who, with a lifetime batting average of .249, is perhaps representative of the typical PECOTA entry.
Keith Law is an American baseball writer for The Athletic. He previously wrote for ESPN.com and ESPN Scouts, Inc from 2006 – 2019. [1] He was formerly a writer for Baseball Prospectus and worked in the front office for the Toronto Blue Jays. He is a member of the Baseball Writers' Association of America.
He is one of the founders and was a co-editor of the first annual book of sabermetric baseball forecasts and analyses by Baseball Prospectus in 1996 as well as several later volumes. On October 10, 2007, Sheehan took on an additional role as Managing Editor of the newly founded Basketball Prospectus. [1]
Clay Davenport is a baseball sabermetrician who co-founded Baseball Prospectus (BP) in 1996. He co-edited several of the Baseball Prospectus annual volumes and is a writer for BaseballProspectus.com. Much of his work for BP was behind the scenes, where he maintained and implemented advanced statistics for the website.
The annual Greg Spira Memorial Internet Baseball Awards (IBA) are based on fan voting. [1] They were founded in 1991 by Greg Spira with the Most Valuable Player, Cy Young (now Pitcher of the Year), and Rookie of the Year awards, in each of the two leagues in Major League Baseball. [2] In 1998, an award for Manager of the Year was added in each ...