Ron Shandler's 2026 Baseball Forecaster
And Encyclopedia of Fanalytics
Triumph Books · Print & ebook · February 3, 2026
For more than 35 years, the very best in baseball predictions and statistics The industry's longest-running publication for baseball analysts and fantasy leaguers, Ron Shandler's Baseball Forecaster, published annually since 1986, is the first book to approach prognostication by breaking performance down into its component parts.
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- Who it’s for
- This annual baseball reference works backward from component skills to forecast performance and trends.
- Genres
- Baseball Statistics, Fantasy Sports, Sports Resources
- Published
- Triumph Books, February 3, 2026
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For more than 35 years, the very best in baseball predictions and statistics The industry's longest-running publication for baseball analysts and fantasy leaguers, Ron Shandler's Baseball Forecaster, published annually since 1986, is the first book to approach prognostication by breaking performance down into its component parts.
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Rather than predicting batting average, for instance, this resource looks at the elements of skill that make up any given batter's ability to distinguish between balls and strikes, his propensity to make contact with the ball, and what happens when he makes contact—reverse engineering those skills back into batting average. The result is an unparalleled forecast of baseball abilities and trends for the upcoming season and beyond.
Batting Skills
This annual baseball reference works backward from component skills to forecast performance and trends.
Come here for
- Breaking batting average into component skills
- Forecasts of baseball abilities and trends
Expect
- Analysis of balls-and-strikes judgment
- Contact rates and what happens when batters make contact
Where it sits
| Baseball Statistics | 83% |
|---|---|
| Sports Resources | 49% |
| Fantasy Sports | 48% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Sports Betting
- Fantasy Sports
- Baseball
- Baseball Statistics
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- Sports Resources
- Authors
- Brent Hershey, Brandon Kruse, Ray Murphy
- Publisher
- Triumph Books
- Published
- February 3, 2026
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Reading lane
- Sports Betting