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Baseball Prospectus Premium
$39.95 for one year or $4.95 per month (recurring)*
Get access to every article, statistic, chat, forecast, and feature at baseballprospectus.com.
Baseball Prospectus is a collection of the game's finest analysts, committed to providing intelligent, high-caliber analysis of our favorite game in books, online, and on radio and television.
Each weekday, Baseball Prospectus Premium brings you the best baseball content on the Web from its stable of talented writers. Whether it's news, commentary, analysis or humor, BP's staff brings you the best around on a daily basis--and with over 500 articles a year, you'll be paying less than eight cents an article.
Your yearly* Premium subscription gets you access to everything at baseballprospectus.com, including:
- Joe Sheehan's Prospectus Today, one of the longest-running baseball columns on the Web. From game analyses to player evaluation to discussions of general manager performance, Joe covers the game from first pitch to last out and beyond. Are elite closers a good bet for multi-year contracts? How ridiculous was the Cy Young voting? He brings a fan's passion and love for the game to analysis. [Browse archive]
- Will Carroll's Under the Knife stakes out the injury beat every day. Using his extensive network of sources in clubhouses and training rooms, Will gets the scoop on player health, then tells you what it means for his team--and yours--with his extensive knowledge of sports injuries. [Browse archive]
- Christina Kahrl's Transaction Analysis is a long-standing tradition. No matter the move, from blockbuster trade to cup-of-coffee call-up, Christina breaks down the impact on everyone involved with a style that is uniquely her own. [Browse archive]
- New to BP, Kevin Goldstein's Future Shock covers the minors from the Pacific Coast League down through the short-season circuits. His daily prospect reports blend scouting and stats, observation and performance, to provide the broadest picture of what players can--and likely will--do. [Browse archive]
- Nate Silver's Lies, Damned Lies is the place to look for ground-breaking research pieces. Silver, the architect of the PECOTA projection system, breaks down player performance with a sabermetric bent--and keeps it interesting. [Browse archive]
- In exclusive Prospectus Q&A interviews, David Laurila, Carlos Lugo, and others get in-depth insight from the game's insiders. Get inside the heads of general managers like Kevin Towers, John Schuerholz, Terry Ryan, J.P. Ricciardi, Theo Epstein, and Bill Bavasi; players like Miguel Tejada, Livan Hernandez, Juan Marichal, Pete Rose, and Rickey Henderson; and other important figures in the game like Dr. Glenn Fleisig, Tom House, and Josh Lewin. Don't know who some of these people are? Another good reason to subscribe. Get ahead of the game with Baseball Prospectus Premium. [Browse archive]
- Veteran writer Jim Baker's Prospectus Matchups mixes analysis and humor twice a week. Let Jim be your guide through the regular season, breaking down the best, worst, and strangest matchups of the week with his insightful, quirky look at the game. [Browse archive]
- Steven Goldman's You Could Look It Up. Travel back in time as Steven takes a look at the game's past heroes. How does Carlos Beltran compare to Willie Mays? Is Johan Santana the next Sandy Koufax? You'll get the historical perpsective on the game's hot-button issues, right here at Baseball Prospectus. [Browse archive]
- Insight from the world's best analysts. Throughout the year, BP also brings you original research by sabermetric heavyweights Keith Woolner, Clay Davenport and Rany Jazayerli.
You'll also get these additional features:
- Live Chats with Baseball Prospectus authors and some of the game's biggest movers and shakers. Past chats include Oakland A's GM Billy Beane, Houston Astros GM Tim Purpura, San Diego Padres GM Kevin Towers, Stan Conte, and John Sickels.
- Dozens of cutting-edge stat reports including Starting Pitcher and Reliever Effectiveness Reports; Equivalent Average (park adjusted performance) summary reports for players in the majors and minors Report; Value Over Replacement Player Report for both pitchers and hitters, and dozens more, examining everything from umpire effects to pitcher abuse.
- Sortable Stats. Now you can see BP's unique statistics the way you want them. Premium and Fantasy subscribers can display BP's unique statistics reports any way they want, including multi-column sorts.
- Daily Newsletter delivered to your email box every weekday. You'll get updates on the day's content, events, selected statistics, and more!
- Yearly Premium subscribers also get everything included in Baseball Prospectus Fantasy, including the most thorough and complete forecasts available, BP Team Tracker so you can track all your fantasy teams, and access to the complete PECOTA Forecast cards for over 1500 players--the most complete and thorough forecasts available anywhere. It's all included with a subscription to BP Premium. Monthly recurring subs do not have access to the Prospectus Fantasy Manager or the PECOTA spreadsheet, but have full access to everything else.
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Baseball Prospectus Fantasy
($19.95 for a subscription expiring November 1; included with BP Premium)
Just the numbers. What you need to win your fantasy league. Pay for the stuff you need, not for stuff you don't.
You'll receive:
- Complete depth charts and forecasts for AL and NL pitchers and hitters using Baseball Prospectus' deadly-accurate PECOTA projection system--the same one used in MLB front offices. Playing time forecasts will be updated weekly before the season begins, so you'll know who's going to rack up the numbers. Check out the Boston Red Sox depth chart for more info.
- BP Player Forecast Manager (PFM), an tool that allows you to generate dollar values based on the parameters of your league. Subscribers can access the latest build now.
- Exclusive BP Fantasy Beat articles--Marc Normandin covers the fantasy topics and tactics you need to win your league. BP Fantasy Beat appears regularly throughout the season--only at Baseball Prospectus.
- BP Team Tracker service for your fantasy teams--customize rosters and get daily, weekly, monthly, and year-to-date statistical breakdowns for your players. Click here for a screenshot.
- Access to the complete PECOTA projection system's 2008 player cards. Detail for over 1500 players--the most complete and thorough forecasts available anywhere. Check one out here.
- Decide you want to upgrade? With a Fantasy subscription, you're halfway to a full Premium subscription--your ticket to the best baseball content on the Internet.
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