The Super Bowl is over, and even though it’s a bit trite to say “baseball season is here,” because it isn’t, it’s at least around the corner. Just like intermittent warm days in the winter exhale a gasp of spring, the Baseball Prospectus Annual is a gasp of baseball, if you can really call 575 pages a mere gasp. I’ve been purchasing the book for three years now, and I can definitively say that it’s a must-read for any baseball fan before the season. Each team has an essay and PECOTA projections for the year, as well as other statistical articles.