Baseball Prospectus

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Baseball Prospectus was founded in 1995 as a for-profit book and web-publishing outlet, employing motivated writers from rec.sport.baseball and other places.

In the early days of Prospectus and Baseball Primer, when both were freely available on the web, they seemed to be rival sites for sabermetrically-aware fans. Since the Baseball Prospectus site went pay in 2003 and Primer went in the direction of a general baseball forum, they have each found survivable niches and to this date are coexisting.

Some past and present notable contributors to Prospectus: Joe Sheehan, Gary Huckabay, Clay Davenport, Chris Kahrl, Keith Law, Michael Wolverton, Keith Woolner, Will Carroll, Dayn Perry, Maury Brown, the late Doug Pappas.

Primate John Brattain also authored a handful of Prospectus articles before they wised up. Rumour has it that one of their editorial staff's head exploded after perusing one of his submissions. After Brattain delivered his ultimatum: "What do you want, me or quality content?" he found himself being referred to in the past tense.

See also: Feud with Baseball Prospectus, EQA, economically illiterate bitches.