* Review: Evaluating Baseball 's Managers

January 21, 2010

A History and Analysis of Performance in the Major Leagues, 1876-2008, by Chris Jaffe (McFarland).

A review of the book appears on Amazin’ Avenue (“an unofficial New York Mets blog”).

Upshot:

It all makes for a very interesting read, especially considering how tragically ignored managers are in most baseball literature and analysis.

If the Mets chapters are any indication of what we can expect from the rest of the book, Evaluating Baseball’s Managers figures to be treasure. I certainly recommend it to any baseball fan with a fondness for history or any affinity for thinking about the game in new ways. Other than Bill James’s book on managers—difficult to find these days—there’s really nothing else like it out there.

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