I just commented during Will's chat yesterday that I was really missing the indexes. It is tough to remember who players played for last year sometimes.

As much as I enjoyed challenging myself to remember the last triple-A affiliate [Insert Random Journeyman] visited in '08, this should help immensely. Thanks as always for the annual, Christina (and co.)

Index? I just read it front to back like a novel...;}

Thanks CK!

Now the big decision .... how to affix the page in the book. :-)

Kristina, is there any possibility that the thickness (# of pages) can possibly be reduced by simply using a smaller font, and some smaller margins? While pleasing to the eye, the extra whitespace could be used to provide even more stellar content, and an index of course.

I'm not sure who "Rod Seaton" is ... there is a ROSS Seaton, however.

CK - thanks for the candor on the index. I reformatted to a 10 page printable copy easily affixed to the annual:

http://www.box.net/shared/0ke7mulhoe

The BOOK is here! And now I have an Index too! Thank you, and especially thank you for getting it to me *before* my draft this season, rather than a day after.

Here's a question I have... are the fielding statistics in the book actually useful? Sometimes it seems the comments on each player are in direct opposition to the fielding statistics. Also, and I might be wrong, but it appears that some people's fielding numbers for 2006 and 2007 are different in the BP2009 book than in the BP2008 book.

Wow, no index in the book? Are you kidding me? I received mine from Amazon a few days ago, but I haven't had time to dig into it yet, so I hadn't noticed the index was missing. I do appreciate the mea culpa, and the opportunity to at least download it in PDF format, but the lack of an index in the print version is inexcusable.

Can we split into 2 volumes in the future? This is getting pretty unwieldy to read on the can.

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Can we all agree (liberals and conservatives alike) that the Olberman intro was a little weak?

What happened to MLVr?! My favorite stat; I'm crushed. WARP over MLVr? Argh.

I didn't want to look like a complainer, so this index is very much appreciated. It was bizarre to see BP removing features instead of adding them.

Also sad to see the Team Quotes go.

I was saddened to read in the contributors's bios that Kevin lives with a wife who hates baseball, her two children, and etc. Time constraints, eh?

It really is time to offer the entire book as a PDF.

Save a tree.

But I know that's a decision of the publishing house, not of BP.

Promise us you won't leave this out again. This tool is essential to the actual use of the book.

And if you are going to leave it out again, for the sake of transparency let us know before we buy it.

I love the work you all do, but this is as boneheaded an omission as you could make with a book of this scope.