Using its three-hour-long contests, 162-game seasons, and countless measurable variables, baseball is a sport which lends itself to self-reflection and obsessive analysis. It’s a considering game. It is also a moving game. Nowhere is definitely this more noticeable than in the statistical revolution which has swept through the pastime lately, bringing metrics like WAR, OPS, and BABIP into front offices and living spaces alike.

So what’s coming for a game that’s constantly evolving? Positioned about The Shift: ANOTHER Evolution in Football Thinking on the crossroads of sabermetrics and cognitive science, The Change alters the trajectory of both traditional and analytics-based baseball thought. Using a background in clinical psychology as well as experience in major little league front offices, Football Prospectus’s Russell Carleton illuminates advanced statistics and challenges social assumptions, demonstrating along the way that data and logic need not become at odds with the human components of baseball-in reality, they’re inextricably intertwined.

Covering topics which range from infield shifts to paradigm shifts, Carleton writes with verve, credibility, and an participating style, inviting those who also love the game to examine it deeply and maybe a little differently.