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Billy Beane, general manager of MLB's Oakland A's and protagonist of Michael Lewis's Moneyball, had a problem: how to win inside Major Leagues which has a budget that's small compared to those of nearly every other team. Conventional wisdom long held that big name, highly athletic hitters and young pitchers with rocket arms were the ticket to success. But Beane and his awesome staff, buoyed by massive levels of carefully interpreted statistical data, thought that wins could be had by cheaper methods including hitters with good on-base percentage and pitchers who get a lot of ground outs. Given these records plus a tight budget, Beane defied tradition and the own scouting department to build winning teams of young affordable players and inexpensive castoff veterans.
Lewis was in the room using the A's top management since they spent the summer of 2002 adding and subtracting players and the man provides outstanding play-by-play. In the June player draft, Beane acquired nearly every prospect he coveted (few of whom were coveted by other teams) and on the July trading deadline he engaged in a tense battle of nerves to get a lefty reliever. Besides being one in the most insider accounts ever discussed baseball, Moneyball is populated with fascinating characters. We meet Jeremy Brown, an overweight college catcher who most teams project to become a 15th round draft pick (Beane takes him in the first). Sidearm pitcher Chad Bradford is plucked in the White Sox triple-A club to become a vital set-up man and catcher Scott Hatteberg is rebuilt as a first baseman. But probably the most interesting character is Beane himself. A speedy athletic can't-miss prospect who somehow missed, Beane reinvents himself like a front-office guru, depending on players completely unlike, say, Billy Beane. Lewis, one of the top nonfiction writers of his era (Liar's Poker, The Brand New New Thing), offers highly accessible explanations of baseball stats with his fantastic roadmap of Beane's economic approach makes Moneyball an attractive reading experience for business people and sports fans alike. --John Moe
Lewis (Liar's Poker; The Newest New Thing) examines how in 2002 the Oakland Athletics achieved a spectacular winning record while having the smallest player payroll associated with a major league baseball team. Given the heavily publicized salaries of players for teams just like the Boston Red Sox or New York Yankees, baseball insiders and fans assume how the biggest talents deserve and receive the biggest salaries. However, argues Lewis, little-known numbers and statistics matter more. Lewis discusses Bill James and his annual stats newsletter, Baseball Abstract, together with other mathematical analysis in the game. Surprisingly, though, most managers have not paid focus on this research, except for Billy Beane, general manager in the A's as well as a former player; as outlined by Lewis, "[B]y a symptom in the 2002 season, the Oakland A's, by winning so much with so little, became something associated with an embarrassment to Bud Selig and, by extension, Major League Baseball." The team's success is really a shrewd mix of luck, careful player choices and Beane's first-rate negotiating skills. Beane knows which players are likely to be traded by other teams, and the man manages to involve himself even in the event the trade is unconnected on the A's. " `Trawling' is one thing that he called this activity," writes Lewis. "His constant chatter was a method of keeping tabs on the body of data critical to his trading success." Lewis chronicles Beane's life, focusing on his uncanny ability to get and sign the correct players. His descriptive writing allows Beane and also the others within the lively cast of baseball characters in the future alive.
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