Michael Lewis's 2003 bestseller Moneyball exposed the public to a trend in baseball few casual fans had noticed: numbers-crunching analysts were taking jobs in major-league front offices and relying on the so-called sabermetric movementwhich evaluates players using statistics far more complex than batting average and runs batted into identify ways to gain advantages over other teams. Lewis described, in rather dramatic fashion, how Billy Beane and the Oakland A's built a perennial winner on a shoestring budget.
Comment Rules
The following HTML is allowed in comments:
Bold: <b>Text</b>
Italic: <i>Text</i>
Link:
<a href="URL">Text</a>