The 2018 Hardball Times Annual Is Here!
This morning, we’re launching The Hardball Times Baseball Annual 2018!
This year’s Annual returns with a great line up of contributors from The Hardball Times and FanGraphs — folks like Jeff Sullivan, Eric Longenhagen, Kate Preusser, Adam Dorhauer, Jack Moore, Britni de la Cretaz, Carson Cistulli, Sarah Wexler, Chris Mitchell, Neil Weinberg, and Travis Sawchik, among others — plus a few special guests.
It’s our first online edition, which we hope will make the smart, incisive work in it more accessible and easier to share. And in an effort to bring you as many different kinds of baseball stories as possible, we’re pleased to feature another first — a fiction section.
We’re really proud of the work this team has done to bring you insight across Commentary, Analysis, History, and Fiction, and we hope the Annual helps you pass this slow offseason with a bit more ease. Thank you for reading!
Meg is the editor-in-chief of FanGraphs and the co-host of Effectively Wild. Prior to joining FanGraphs, her work appeared at Baseball Prospectus, Lookout Landing, and Just A Bit Outside. You can follow her on Bluesky @megrowler.fangraphs.com.
So no print edition whatsoever? Well regardless, looking forward to reading it. I like the quick option of clicking on articles when I’m ready to read them.
Holy crap this is free thank you.
Now I understand why Dave left: he needed some way to get out of writing his Annual article.
Dang, was actually looking forward to the print one. I love them for their hurried imposition and unpretentious design :-/
My wife was actually disappointed as it is such as easy gift to give me. She’s having to actually resort to shopping for something different or hopefully she just buys tickets to a game.
I always looked forward to getting one in the offseason too. Glad its sticking around in an online format at least!
Oh my god it’s free? I clicked through to the first Jeff to make sure it really works. It does.
Is there any way to get/read this on a Kindle? Besides the very slow “experimental browser” option. I’d be more then willing to pay for it
I’m with you there. I have a few long flights coming up in February and was going to dive into this. I’m going to try to create an ebook file out of this and upload it to my Kindle. First attempt at that sort of thing but hopefully it works!
Good idea, I think Calibre has a feature for that I will have to try out. Fiction section is a great addition Meg.