* Now hear this: Steven Goldman

Rutgers alum Steven Goldman is co-editor of the very popular Baseball Prospectus series and website. Barely on the bookshelves, this perennial favorite is already the top sports best-seller on Amazon.com and no. 15 in the top 100 overall.

I must admit, I have never been one for such publications, siding with the veteran baseball writer Murray Chass, who has famously feuded with “sabermetricians,” and has been labeled a “dinosaur” for his stance. But I have become a convert, you should pardon the expression, because of the insightful commentary and well-written articles that accompany the dizzying array of figures.

BP is the “progeny” of the Bill James Abstracts of the mid1980s. Who knew at the time the influence James would have in the decades to come?

Goldman, author of the 2005 biography Forging Genius: The Making of Casey Stengel (Potomac), also hosts the “Pinstriped Bible” Yankees blog on the Yes Network’s site.

He spent a few minutes discussing the significance his organization has had on how fans — and baseball executives — have come to use BP as an important tool (as well as a little back story about the BP-Chass set-to.)

You can hear it here:

Goldman will appear with fellow BP colleagues Kevin Goldstein, Jay Jaffe, and Christina Kahrl at the Yogi Berra Museum in Little Falls (on the campus of Montclair State University) on Sunday, Feb. 28 at 3 p.m. For more information, visit the museum’s site or call 973-655-2378.