Oakland Athletics
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Opening Day 2012: Why We Love Beanballs
Today marks the official start to baseball season! Well, that’s not quite true. The Oakland Athletics and Seattle Mariners played a pair of untelevised games in Japan last week, the results of which remain unclear. And last night, the St. Louis Cardinals faced off against an unrecognizable team dressed in orange uniforms that has apparently been in the NL East for 20 years. READ MORE >>
Moneyball Proves It: Brad Pitt Is A Genius
Moviegoers with an interest in either Brad Pitt or statistics will find much to enjoy in Moneyball, the new film adaptation of Michael Lewis’s book examining the analysis-heavy strategy employed by the cash-strapped Oakland Athletics. Since its release, the book has been frequently invoked as a portrait of how teams with smaller payrolls can gain a competitive advantage by foregoing players who rack up impressive traditional statistics, like RBIs, in favor of those with talents in more obscure realms, such as on-base percentage. READ MORE >>
Why Moneyball Is Still a Poor Ball Club’s Best Friend
Freedom From Quant
Who's On First
Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game By Michael Lewis (W. W. Norton, 288 pp., $24.95) READ MORE >>
