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Now on sale... "Hardball Retroactive" !

“Hardball Retroactive” is a modest collection of selected articles that I have written for Seamheads.com since 2010. Each piece is chosen based on audience response – a combination of social media “likes”, replies to a particular essay along with my personal favorites. Exclusive content is incorporated into the book – additional charts and graphs that were omitted from the original posts as well as three new compositions.

General Manager - Amateur Draft Scorecard

General Manager - Trading Scorecard

General Manager - Free Agent Scorecard *EXCLUSIVE CONTENT*

Taking the Extra Base - The Players

Taking the Extra Base - The Teams

Fun Facts About Inside-the-Park Home Runs

The Best Pitchers Who Never Threw A No-Hitter

The Journey From Expansion to Competitive Team

The Worst In-Season Trades Since 1950

The Worst Off-Season Trades Since 1950 *EXCLUSIVE CONTENT*

Rotisserie vs. Reality

BABIP by Location

Baseball Birthplaces and the Retro World Baseball Classic

Play Retro Baseball Video Games In Your Browser!

Minors vs. Majors *EXCLUSIVE CONTENT*

Introducing "Hardball Retrospective - Addendum 2014 to 2016" !

This book supplements my research for Hardball Retrospective: Evaluating Scouting and Development Outcomes for the Modern-Era Franchises, providing retroactive standings based on Wins Above Replacement (WAR) and Win Shares (WS) for each “original” team over the past three seasons (2014-2016). The team rosters are constructed using players that signed their first Major League contract with each organization. Team totals from 2010 – 2013 are included for reference purposes.

Each ballplayer is listed with his "Original" Franchise along with his WAR and Win Shares for the past three seasons.

70 pages. Kindle Edition on sale now for only 99 cents - Paperback $5.99 !!

Hardball Retrospective: Evaluating Scouting and Development Outcomes for the Modern-Era Franchises is on sale for $7.99 (Kindle edition) and $17.99 (Paperback) ->

https://www.amazon.com/Hardball-Retrospective-Evaluating-Development-Modern-Era-ebook/dp/B00RO4FC26

We are honored to receive a runner-up award for the 2016 Shelf Unbound Best Indie Book Competition for "Hardball Retrospective"!

Hardball Retrospective: Evaluating Scouting and Development Outcomes for the Modern-Era Franchises - Paperback edition now available at Amazon, Barnes and Noble and CreateSpace for $19.99 !!

by Derek Bain

Edited by Marianne Landrum

Foreword by Don Daglow

You can read Don's foreword along with a preview of Hardball Retrospective here:

http://www.barnesandnoble.com/sample/read/2940149864263

Kindle Edition available on Amazon.com

Kobo Edition available on Kobobooks.com

Nook Edition available on Barnesandnoble.com

Google Play Edition available on play.google.com

iBooks Edition available on iTunes

Would your favorite baseball team make the playoffs if player X had not been traded? Imagine your team's roster from any particular year. Remove all of the players that your team acquired through trades and free agency. Would you be able to field a competitive team? All right, let us re-populate the roster with every player that the organization originally drafted and signed. Yes, we will include undrafted free agents and foreign players who signed with their first Major League team, as well. How does the team stack up now? Is the club better or worse than the squad that you imagined at first?

I applied these criteria to every Major League Baseball franchise of the modern era (1901-present) in order to establish the proficiency of each organization with respect to scouting, development and performance. In Hardball Retrospective, I placed every ballplayer in the modern era (from 1901-present) on their original teams. Using a variety of advanced statistics and methods, I generated revised standings for each season based entirely on the performance of each team’s “original” players. I discuss every team’s “original” players and seasons at length along with organizational performance with respect to the Amateur Draft (or First-Year Player Draft), amateur free agent signings and other methods of player acquisition. Season standings, WAR and Win Shares totals for the “original” teams are compared against the real-time or “actual” team results to assess each franchise’s scouting, development and general management skills.

Links to Hardball Retrospective articles:

Fangraphs Seamheads

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Quetzalcoatlus™ is a one-player game that is compatible with Microsoft Windows® operating systems (XP, Vista, Windows 7 & 8) and the classic Commodore 64® system. The Commodore 64® demo version will run on any C64 emulator. The final product will be available for purchase via software download, or on a 5 1/4" floppy diskette (Commodore® version only - for use with the original Commodore 64® computer system).

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