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Baseball Prospectus (BP) is an organization that publishes a website, BaseballProspectus.com, devoted to the sabermetric analysis of baseball. BP has a staff of regular columnists and provides advanced statistics as well as player and team performance projections on the site. Since 1996 the BP staff has also published a ''Baseball Prospectus'' annual as well as several other books devoted to baseball analysis and history. Baseball Prospectus has fathered several popular new statistical tools that have become hallmarks of baseball analysis. Baseball Prospectus is accredited by the Baseball Writers Association of America. Four of Baseball Prospectus's current regular writers are members of the Baseball Writers Association of America and thus eligible to vote for nominees for Major League Baseball's post-season awards and the Baseball Hall of Fame.〔Former BP writer Keith Law, who writes for ESPN.com, is also a member of the BBWAA.〕 ==Prospectus Entertainment Ventures, LLC== Baseball Prospectus is formally an entity of Prospectus Entertainment Ventures, LLC, a private corporation that runs websites and publishes books focusing on the statistical analysis of the sports of baseball, basketball, and hockey. As of August 2014, the President & CEO is Joe Hamrahi, and Vice President is Dave Pease.〔(BP masthead ).〕 For several years, Prospectus Entertainment Ventures (''PEV'') partnered with Football Outsiders for the publication and promotion of ''Football Outsiders Almanac'' (ISBN 1448648459), before 2009 called ''Pro Football Prospectus'' (ISBN 0452288479). On October 10, 2007, PEV launched ''Basketball Prospectus,''〔(BasketballProspectus.com )〕 a new website for the analysis of men's college and pro basketball, with Joe Sheehan taking the role of Managing Editor〔(Sheehan as Managing Editor )〕 and announcing the lineup of principal writer-analysts for the site. Initially, this website did not require a subscription for access, but it introduced subscriptions in 2011 for access to most of the material on the site. ''BasketballProspectus.com''s first annual book, ''College Basketball Prospectus 2008–2009'' (ISBN 0452289874), was published in October 2008. It released ''Pro Basketball Prospectus 2009–10'' for purchase online in October 2009.〔Kevin Pelton and Bradford Doolittle, "Pro Basketball Prospectus, 2009–10: Our Newest Book," (BasketballProspectus (September 2, 2009) ).〕 Subsequently, it published both ''College Basketball Prospectus 2010–11'' (ISBN 1453872825) and ''Pro Basketball Prospectus 2010–11'' (ISBN 1453868992) in both print and online (PDF) modes. On March 19, 2008, Imagine Sports announced a strategic partnership with PEV and Baseball Prospectus. Imagine sports owns the baseball simulation engine "Diamond Mind Baseball".〔(Imagine Sports strategic partnership ).〕 On October 14, 2008, PEV announced the acquisition of ''Baseball Digest Daily'' (BDD),〔(''Baseball Digest Daily'' )〕 an online blog devoted to baseball analysis and statistics. Joe Hamrahi, new Chief Financial Officer of PEV and founder of BDD, reported that "PEV's decision to acquire Baseball Digest Daily further enhances the content offerings of Baseball Prospectus by adding some of the game's best analysts as well as over 100 pages of baseball news and original content. In addition, BDD's player tracker provides a platform for serious fans and fantasy baseball enthusiasts to easily monitor the progress of their teams, allowing users to manipulate and track the progress of an unlimited set of players over a customized period of time".〔(Press Release: ) "Prospectus Entertainment Ventures (Owner of Baseball Prospectus) Announces Acquisition of Baseball Digest Daily (BDD)," by Joe Hamrahi, Tuesday, October 14, 2008.〕 At the same time, PEV revealed publicly that it "owns a significant interest in 538 ''(www.fivethirtyeight.com)'', a political analysis website that generates over 700,000 unique visitors daily". On February 23, 2009, Prospectus Entertainment Ventures (PEV) launched the website ''Puck Prospectus''〔(''Puck Prospectus'' )〕 with the intent of providing cutting-edge analysis of hockey. Will Carroll assumed the role of the Executive Editor, and Andrew Rothstein, the founder of ''Puck Prospectus'', assumed the role of the Managing Editor.〔http://puckprospectus.com/article.php?articleid=4〕 Puck Prospectus published its first annual book, ''Puck Prospectus 2010–2011'' (ISBN 1453817840) in both online and print formats. Initially a free site, ''Puck Prospectus'' introduced subscriptions in 2011. On March 24, 2009, Baseball Prospectus announced that Nate Silver was stepping down as its Managing Partner, and Kevin Goldstein was assuming this role. At that time, PEV relinquished its previously announced financial interest in Silver's ''FiveThirtyEight'' blog. At the same time, it was announced that BP has a partnership relationship with ESPN.com.〔Nate Silver and Kevin Goldstein, "State of the Prospectus: Spring 2009," (BaseballProspectus.com, March 24, 2009 ).〕 In January 2010, PEV's Managing Partner Kevin Goldstein reported that one of BP's founding members, Joe Sheehan, had departed the organization.〔Kevin Goldstein, "State of the Prospectus: The Year and the Decade to Come," (BaseballProspectus.com, January 4, 2010 ).〕 He reported that John Perrotto had been elevated to full-time status on the BP staff and would become the new Editor-in-Chief of ''BaseballProspectus.com'', taking over that responsibility from Christina Kahrl. And he reported that Jeff Euston was joining the BP staff and that Euston's ''Cot's Baseball Contracts'' website〔(Cot's Baseball Contracts )〕 would be joining the Baseball Prospectus family. In February 2011, Perrotto was replaced as Editor-in-Chief by Steven Goldman. In February 2010, BP's "Fantasy Manager" Marc Normandin announced that BP had established a partnership with ''Heater Magazine.''〔Marc Normandin, "The New BP Fantasy," (BaseballProspectus.com, February 25, 2010 ).〕 ''Heater Magazine'' ceased publication after the 2010 season. In November 2011, Kevin Goldstein announced that he was stepping down as PEV's Managing Partner in favor of Joe Hamrahi.〔Kevin Goldstein, "Organizational Announcement," (BaseballProspectus.com, November 28, 2012 ).〕 On March 3, 2012, Hamrahi announced that Steven Goldman was stepping down as Editor-in-Chief of BaseballProspectus.com; Goldman had taken a position as a lead baseball writer for ''Bleacher Report''.〔Joe Hamrahi, "Thank you, Steven Goldman," (BaseballProspectus.com, March 2, 2012 ).〕 Ben Lindbergh was named Managing Editor of Baseball Prospectus on March 5, 2012〔Joe Hamrahi, "BP Names New Managing Editor," (BaseballProspectus.com, March 5, 2012 )〕 and Editor-in-Chief of Baseball Prospectus on July 13, 2012.〔Joe Hamrahi, "Lindbergh and Evans Help Chart New Course for BP," (BaseballProspectus.com, July 13, 2012 )〕 On April 30, 2012, PEV's Managing Partner Joe Hamrahi announced that "Dan Brooks, Harry Pavlidis, and Brooks Baseball have agreed to team up and join forces with Baseball Prospectus. (BrooksBaseball.net ) is the premier site for PITCHf/x analysis and pitch classification".〔Joe Hamrahi, "Brooks Baseball Joins Forces with Baseball Prospectus," (BaseballProspectus.com, April 30, 2012 ).〕 On March 15, 2013, after explaining a week earlier that its key staff of writers had been hired away by ESPN, Baseball Prospectus's Dave Pease declared in response to a question in the comments: "Basketball Prospectus will not be publishing any new content. We are going quiet. The archives will remain available. Thank you".〔Dave Pease, "State of Basketball Prospectus: A Brief Announcement (Basketball Prospectus.com, March 15, 2013 ).〕 On March 8, Pease had written: "You've probably noticed our Basketball Prospectus Premium coverage has been pretty quiet lately. You may have also noticed that our core pro writers, Kevin Pelton, Bradford Doolittle, and John Gasaway are now writing for ESPN Insider on a regular basis. Late last year, we learned that, following their completion of the Pro Basketball Prospectus 2012–13 and College Basketball Prospectus 2012–13 annuals, Kevin, Bradford, and John would be moving to ESPN on a full-time basis". 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Baseball Prospectus」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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