The Bill James Handbook for 2021 is filled with the statistics you need to get you through the winter — all the numbers for the current players, plus leaders in both traditional and “Bill James” categories in both leagues.
James also has several essays in this year’s book, as usual, including two titled “The World’s Best Hitter” and “The World’s #1 Starting Pitcher Rankings,” which give point scores to MLB hitters and pitchers and then rank them at different intervals of the season. In fact, James goes all the way back to the 1940s to rank various pitchers, stating that this system:
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