Got an ad for this in my emailbox the other day - it appears from the STATS, Inc. website that the STATS Major League Handbook, the stat-head's annual bible for the past decade, has bitten the dust, or more precisely has been merged with the annual Sporting News Baseball Register, also a fine publication but a radically different one. Here's hoping that the new hybrid keeps around the best of both, but I'm not optimistic. This year, I'm waiting until I can flip through the book in a bookstore to buy it instead of ordering blind over the internet.