Sickels Prospect Book 2006

by Tyler Bleszinski on Dec 28, 2005 3:46 PM PST in News

If you'll notice, John Sickels has an ad running on the side of AN. I would highly recommend that anyone pick up the 2006 Baseball Prospect book. It's an amazing tool and can help anyone get to know minor leaguers better than your own family.

You can order the book at John Sickels.com. Learn if Daric Barton is all he's cracked up to be. Find out if Andre Ethier is going to be a player that the A's will be crying about losing for years. Is Dan Meyer still a top prospect? Sickels has your answer.

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We're Just Catching Up!

I picked up Mychael Urban's Aces for myself when "shopping for others" at Christmas. It's a good read - and it really seems that's the format where his skills shine, beyond the gameday wraps. It's rough having to relive the highs and lows of the 2004 season, but a good story nonetheless.

So while we're stuck in 2004, you're already moving on to 2006? I don't know if this is going to work out!

by louismg on Dec 28, 2005 4:53 PM PST reply actions

Are you

breaking up with Blez? Does this mean we can only have ANtics every other Sunday? Sigh. The blog always loses when these things get nasty.

by Nico on Dec 28, 2005 6:54 PM PST up reply actions

no worries

Lou is just going to post his new ANtics as comments in the 2004 threads.

Either that or we're going to have to send Michael J Fox in a souped-up DeLorean after him...

by Apricot on Dec 28, 2005 8:41 PM PST up reply actions

So that's the plot

for the upcoming Back To The Future 4.

"You dumped a porn star? Friendship over. FRIENDSHIP OVER!"...Barney

by grover on Dec 29, 2005 6:38 AM PST up reply actions

Which reminds me...

...the Cubs are supposed to win the World Series in 9 years -- against Miami (I guess the Marlins will move, then an AL team moves to Miami and adopts an alligator as a mascot). Our cars are also supposed to fly and businessmen wear two ties at once.

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by FormerHuntsvilleStar on Dec 29, 2005 8:17 AM PST up reply actions

Two ties? Hey that was my invention!

I was trying to create the "two ties" look about 20 years ago.

Unfortunately it was about as appealing, easy, and practice as wearing two coffee mugs on your head.

"Don't go getting all Alexander Haig on me, either." Beane to Forst at GM winter meetings.

by Ducts on the Pawn on Dec 29, 2005 8:21 AM PST up reply actions

re MU's Aces book

I am used to reading a lot of history books where the outcome was already known. Yet I found I was experiencing a certain underlying "downer" all the way through. Perhaps it was because I knew that, with each "game synopsis" that was a loss, the Athletics really just needed TWO of those games early in the season, and the Anaheim series would have been moot. Especially bad was the description of the Detroit game (I was sitting behind the Tigers dugout for that one) in August. Hudson celebrated "no Pudge" pregame, and Duke gave up homeruns to lose it. To relive that...UGH!

I guess with most histories... "You wereN'T there!" But with this one there is a sense of "inclusion".

Guess it's why I never felt compelled to keep a diary.

"Don't go getting all Alexander Haig on me, either." Beane to Forst at GM winter meetings.

by Ducts on the Pawn on Dec 29, 2005 8:18 AM PST up reply actions

Hmm.

There's not enough half-naked volleyball players in Sickels's ad.

"Baseball fans are junkies, and their heroin is the statistic." -Robert S. Wieder

by Kyli on Dec 28, 2005 5:31 PM PST reply actions

perhaps you're thinking of ...

... Sickels' other new tome, his 2006 Half-Naked Volleyball Prospect book ...

Me, I'm waiting for Sickels' '07 book touting the California ballot initiative to mandate more half-naked volleyball player ads online.

@('.')@

by monkeyball on Dec 28, 2005 5:51 PM PST up reply actions

I don't know,

That Half-Naked Volleyball edition sounds enticing.

The banners have been such teases!

by RenoTy on Dec 28, 2005 6:20 PM PST up reply actions

Thanks Blez

Half-naked voleyball players aside (although I am a fan)I will order the book tonight. Didn't get any great books for Christmas and it's a good prep for some of the guys we may hear about in spring training.

by WannaBeGM on Dec 28, 2005 8:46 PM PST reply actions

In reading....

...the article, I saw this:

"This issue and the reason all this attention is being paid to statistics is because a guy came up with a pretty crafty title for a book! That's number one. Number two. Well there's not much more to it than that."

I don't in any way denegrate the man. His record speaks for itself. The Braves are always in it. However, it seems to me (without knowing what the Braves' payroll is) that the teams Beane puts together perform at least as well as do the Braves - with a much smaller payroll. Lewis saw something different in what Beane was doing and he found out what it was - the use of statistics to find value in players that other GM's and scouts ignored or never saw at all. This takes brains, guts and superior negotiating skills which in themselves are the qualities of an excellent businessman. To toss this off so casually I think is a mistake.

by doubleplayer on Dec 29, 2005 2:09 PM PST reply actions