Minor League Baseball Analyst

By Deric Mckamey

Minor League Baseball Analyst provides statistical analyses of minor league players using the latest quantitative methodologies. It also includes scouting information and ranking lists. It is the only... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1891566709
• ISBN13: 9781891566707
• Release Date: January 2006
• Publisher: Shandler Enterprises, LLC
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 10.5" x 0.5" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

Good Source

Good source for the serious baseball fan who may want a more analytical review of their favorite prospects and future mlb stars.

The best in the business!

All one has to do is a little research as to the prognostication record of minor league "gurus" and they'll discover that Deric McKamey's accuracy is at the top of the heap. For anyone who loves minor league baseball, this book is written by the one of the best. For those who have attended any of BaseballHQ's live seminars, they would agree. Deric doesn't use notes as he fields questions about any prospect. The reason? This book is written by a real MLB scout who has seen most of the players that he writes about. If you are in a fantasy baseball league that includes minor leaguers, THIS is the book you want.

Solid read for people looking at future players.

I really like this book for the information that it has. You can really look into the guts of a players ability by the stats and writes ups that are provided by the writer. Anyone trying to find a future star in baseball needs to have this book. Only issue I had is that there are a few older minor league players in this book. These guys to me seem to be 4A players for their career and could have been left out for me.

Glad I picked it up

I was hungry for another set of prospect evaluations after digesting all of the "Baseball America Propsect Handbook" and figured for $13 and from an author I was familiar with, what the heck. I was impressed at the number of velocities he had(everyone's fastball) for the prospects secondary pitches and Home to First Base times he had for the position players( a 1/3 approx.). He also had his own top rankings for every position on the diamond including separating starting from relieving. There's over a 1000 players evaluated(around 35 for each) so you really get a good feel for each player with the combination of grades(on a 5 point scale), sabermetric stats and blurbs(and for 3/4th velocities or times). Not really a fan of sabermetrics but I liked the one used here to try to see how my favorite Giant prospects matched up with other team's. He was really stingy with his accolades. He didn't hand out many 5's(his highest grade for the tools or pitches) and the ones he did hand out backed up what I've heard from a couple different sources. He also got a lot(around 95% for my Giants) of the velocities and times to 1b absolutely correct, as a couple places have gotten some exaggerated reports. Very interesting that he could have such a good read on so many players on what has to be a limited budget. Like the guy before me said, I will definetly be picking one up next year.

Excellent

Great combination of statistics and scouting methods. Quantifies scouting evaluations well, and has useful basic stats as well as sabermetric measures. Definitely will pick up again next year.