Hardball Retroactive (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781979618724)

Derek Bain is a New Jersey native with a passion for baseball, statistics, computers and video games who enjoys spending quality time with his family. Hardball Retrospective: Evaluating Scouting and Development Outcomes for the Modern-Era Franchises was published in 2015 and received runner-up honors in the Shelf Unbound 2016 Best Indie Book contest. In "Hardball Retrospective: Evaluating Scouting and Development Outcomes for the Modern-Era Franchises," I placed every ballplayer in the modern era (from 1901-2013) on their original team. I calculated revised standings for every season based entirely on the performance of each team's "original" players. I discuss every team's "original" players and seasons at length along with organizational performance with respect to the Amateur Draft (or First-Year Player Draft), amateur free agent signings and other methods of player acquisition. Season standings, WAR and Win Shares totals for the "original" teams are compared against the "actual" team results to assess each franchise's scouting, development and general management skills. Expanding on my research for the book, I have written of articles for Fangraphs and Seamheads, revealing the teams with the biggest single-season difference in the WAR and Win Shares for the "Original" vs. "Actual" rosters for every Major League organization. "Hardball Retrospective" is available in digital format on Amazon, Barnes and Noble, GooglePlay, iTunes and KoboBooks. The paperback edition is available on Amazon, Barnes and Noble and CreateSpace. "Hardball Retrospective - Addendum 2014 to 2016" focuses on the results from those seasons while encompassing standings and statistics dating back to 2010 (available in Amazon Kindle format only). Supplemental Statistics, Charts and Graphs along with a discussion forum are offered at TuataraSoftware.com.