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The Battle for Baseball's Soul and How Teams Will Find the Next Superstar
By Eric Longenhagen, By Kiley McDaniel, Foreword by Keith Law
SPORTS & RECREATION
384 Pages, 6 x 9
Formats: Cloth, Mobipocket, EPUB, PDF, Trade Paper
Cloth, $28.00 (CA $38.00) (US $28.00)
ISBN 9781629377674
Rights: WOR
Triumph Books (Apr 2020)
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"Beautifully constructed... In the vacuum of sports-centered books, it's hard to overstate the importance of Future Value; the book will have a wide-stretching impact both presently and in the near and distant future." —Prospects 365Author Biography
Eric Longenhagen is the lead prospects analyst for FanGraphs. Kiley McDaniel covers prospects for FanGraphs. He has worked as a scout and in the front office for major league organizations. Keith Law is a Senior Baseball Writer for the Athletic. He's covered baseball since 2006. Before that he was a Special Assistant to the General Manager for the Toronto Blue Jays. He is the author of Smart Baseball: The Story Behind the Old Stats That Are Ruining the Game, the New Ones That Are Running It, and the Right Way to Think About Baseball and The Inside Game: Bad Calls, Strange Moves, and What Baseball Behavior Teaches Us About Ourselves.Press Releases
Future Value
The Battle for Baseball’s Soul and How Teams Will Find the Next Superstar
By Eric Longenhagen & Kiley McDaniel / Foreword by Keith Law
Nine players take the field. The pitcher throws the ball. The batter tries to hit it. For more than a century, the art of playing baseball hasn’t changed much. But the art of scouting in baseball? That’s a whole different ballgame.
In Future Value: The Battle for Baseball’s Soul and How Teams Will Find the Next Superstar (Triumph Books, April 14th, 2020), FanGraphs’ Eric Longenhagen and ESPN’s Kiley McDaniel explore how talent evaluation has evolved in the age of analytics. By combining their experience as industry-leading prospect analysts and work with MLB teams, Longenhagen and McDaniel present a thorough overview of how modern scouting has transitioned from stop watches to statistics. Loaded with engaging anecdotes and insights from front office personnel, this engaging and accessible new title will deepen fans’ comprehension of the sport they love. Highlights include:
Future Value will change the way fans think and feel about the national pastime, providing them with the tools and knowledge to evaluate players and franchises with the keen eye of a modern scout. No baseball fan’s library is complete without this essential new addition to the smart baseball canon.
About the Authors:
Eric Longenhagen is the FanGraphs Lead Prospect Analyst. His career in baseball began in 2008, the youngest of the Lehigh Valley Iron Pigs' inaugural crop of interns. He'd go on to work at Baseball Info Solutions and begin writing for various publications, like Crashburn Alley and Sports on Earth, before contributing to ESPN's prospect coverage starting in 2015. He has been at FanGraphs since 2016.
Kiley McDaniel has worked for the Atlanta Braves, Pittsburgh Pirates, Baltimore Orioles and New York Yankees, along with ESPN, FanGraphs, Fox Sports/Scout.com, and Baseball Prospectus. He began as an intern for the Yankees in baseball operations and his most recent club experience was as the Assistant Director of Baseball Operations and West Coast Crosschecker for the Braves. He resides in Atlanta with his puppy Scout.
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