15 Facts About Baseball Prospectus

Baseball Prospectus is an organization that publishes a website, BaseballProspectus.

Baseball Prospectus has originated several popular new statistical tools that have become hallmarks of baseball analysis.

Baseball Prospectus is accredited by the Baseball Writers' Association of America.

Baseball Prospectus is formally an entity of Prospectus Entertainment Ventures, LLC, a private corporation that runs websites and publishes books focusing on the statistical analysis of the sports of baseball, basketball, and ice hockey.

On March 24,2009, Baseball Prospectus announced that Nate Silver was stepping down as its Managing Partner, and Kevin Goldstein was assuming this role.

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Baseball Prospectus reported that John Perrotto had been elevated to full-time status on the BP staff and would become the new Editor-in-Chief of BaseballProspectus.

Baseball Prospectus was founded in 1996 by Gary Huckabay, who recruited the initial contributor group of Clay Davenport, Rany Jazayerli, Christina Kahrl, and Joe Sheehan, with the publication of the first annual set of forecasts.

Kind of sabermetric approach favored by Baseball Prospectus has gained significant acceptance by the management of many Major League Baseball clubs, notably the Boston Red Sox and Cleveland Indians.

Baseball Prospectus is insuring the financial security of this company for years to come.

Baseball Prospectus writers promote several theories on proper baseball management and analysis, many of which are contrary to those of conventional baseball wisdom.

Baseball Prospectus researchers have concluded that there is no repeatable ability of clutch hitting.

Baseball Prospectus argued that although not as important as traditional baseball analysis would suggest, clutch hitting ability was more significant than other sabermetric studies had shown.

Baseball Prospectus writers assert that teams are typically inefficient in their use of their best relievers.

Writers for Baseball Prospectus often argue that teams are, on average, actually lowering their expected number of runs scored.

Spokesmen for both Rose and Major League Baseball Prospectus refuted the claim, but Carroll and his colleagues insisted their reporting was accurate.