The Hardball Times Baseball Annual 2016!

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November 21, 2015

Ladies and gentlemen, The Hardball Times Baseball Annual 2016 is now ready and waiting to be devoured. It is the 12th edition of the book.

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We’ve got a great book this year, including the longest analysis section in the four years I’ve been working on the book — nearly 150 pages! It is available now for purchase direct from both Amazon, and our independent publishing platform, Createspace. It will soon be available for sale on the Kindle as well.

You can read a full breakdown of the table of contents in my post that went up moments ago at THT Live.

This book is a labor of love for us every year. The book is full of posts from our great team at The Hardball Times and here at FanGraphs — Dave Cameron, Jeff Sullivan, Eno Sarris, Carson Cistulli, August Fagerstrom, Jeff Zimmerman, Neil Weinberg, Owen Watson, Chris Mitchell and Jonah Pemstein, among others — plus special guests like Erik Malinowski, Mitchel Lichtman and Phil Birnbaum.

We hope you enjoy it!!!

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Paul Swydan used to be the managing editor of The Hardball Times, a writer and editor for FanGraphs and a writer for Boston.com and The Boston Globe. Now, he owns The Silver Unicorn Bookstore, an independent bookstore in Acton, Mass. Follow him on Twitter @Swydan. Follow the store @SilUnicornActon.

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Borkus
10 years ago

Borkus in the house!!!

I know what I’m asking my parents for Christmas now! The last 2 editions were prime stuff!!!

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Well-Beered Englishman
10 years ago

Yyyyyyyyyyeeeeeaaahhhhhhh!!!

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pft
10 years ago

Too bad no kindle version. Have 28 hrs of travel ahead of me today and would have had time to read it. Will have to wait for the hard copy then.

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ShauncoreMember since 2019
10 years ago

Which site let’s you guys keep more profits (if you are willing to disclose the answer)? I know you guys don’t just do it for the money, but Amazon sometimes can charge authors a steep price.

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Paul SwydanMember since 2020
10 years ago
Reply to  Shauncore

We make more from Createspace, but in my experience Amazon ships much quicker, so please don’t feel obligated to purchase from Createspace.

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AJ Pollock
10 years ago

I assume I’ll get lots of respect in THT2016?!?!

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AJ Pollock
10 years ago
Reply to  AJ Pollock

To be clear, this is AJ Pollock IV, not AJ Pollock III.

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Dave
10 years ago

Serious question…is THT a recap of the past years articles on THT, is it a recap of the 2015 MLB season, what? I’m very interested but don’t want to put money down for a book of old THT articles.

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Dave
10 years ago
Reply to  Dave

Disregard, just saw the other article and the table of contents…off to order!!

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Phillies113
10 years ago

Hooray!!

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