Moneyball
Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game is a book by Michael Lewis, published in 2003, about the Oakland Athletics baseball team and its general manager Billy Beane. A film based on the book, starring Brad Pitt and Jonah Hill, was released in 2011. The book argues that the collective wisdom of baseball insiders over the past century is outdated, subjective, and often flawed.
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Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game is a book by Michael Lewis, published in 2003, about the Oakland Athletics baseball team and its general manager Billy Beane. Its focus is the team’s analytical, evidence-based, sabermetric approach to assembling a competitive baseball team despite Oakland’s small budget. A film based on Lewis’ book, starring Brad Pitt and Jonah Hill, was released in 2011. The book argues that the collective wisdom of baseball insiders over the past century is outdated, subjective, and often flawed. The approach brought the A’s to the playoffs in 2002 and 2003. In its wake, teams such as the New York Mets, New York Yankees, San Diego Padres, St. Louis Cardinals, Arizona Diamondbacks, and Toronto Blue Jays have hired full-time Sabermetric analysts – including Beane’s former associates Paul DePodesta and J.P. Ricciardi – as their general manager. In 2010, the Boston Red Sox jokingly referred to the front office of the team as the ‘Moneyball office’ The book also touches on several themes in the book, such as insiders vs.
outsiders, the democratization of information causing a flattening of hierarchies, and \”the ruthless drive for efficiency that capitalism demands\”. The book touches on Oakland’s underlying economic need to stay ahead of the curve; as other teams begin mirroring Beane’s strategies to evaluate offensive talent, diminishing the Athletics’ advantage, Oakland begins looking for other undervalued baseball skills, like defensive capabilities. Moneyball has entered baseball’s lexicon; teams that value Sabermetrics are often said to be playing \”Moneyballists, in particular some scouts and media members, decry the saber metrics revolution and have decaged the traditional Moneyball methods of player evaluation and evaluation. In the wake of Moneyball, many major league front offices do business in the same way as the traditional baseball front office.
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