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How can baseball dinosaurs so consistently get Moneyball wrong?

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by poindexter, Jul 19, 2011.

  1. dooley_womack1

    dooley_womack1 Well-Known Member

    The second-greatest player nicknamed Oil Can
     
  2. slappy4428

    slappy4428 Active Member

    Flash back to second grade....
     
  3. Everyone knows its all about HBP and IBB
     
  4. jr/shotglass

    jr/shotglass Well-Known Member

    Best known for taking a bullpen pitch in the nuts in "Ball Four."
     
  5. Baron Scicluna

    Baron Scicluna Well-Known Member

    As well as having all the ingredients for a great piece of ass. Plenty of time, and a hard-on. All he lacked was a broad.
     
  6. Brian

    Brian Well-Known Member

    How did you know the title of Barry Bonds' memoirs?
     
  7. Dick Whitman

    Dick Whitman Well-Known Member

    What's crazy is that I think the Twins were the last organization, or close to it, to employ advanced statistical analysis as part of their scouting.

    That said, Beane's influence in baseball is undeniable. That doesn't mean that everything he touched turned to gold - obviously the chapters on the draft are almost comical at this point. But as has been discussed here and elsewhere ad nauseum - the sport eventually caught up to him.
     
  8. cranberry

    cranberry Well-Known Member

    I get a chuckle that people feel some need to define the term Moneyball when it was just the name of a book that examined the use of advanced analysis/metrics to identify which qualities were (at that time) undervalued in the baseball player market. Just because guys with high on-base averages might have been undervalued at that time doesn't mean they're still undervalued. The ensuing obsession over high on-base guys, in fact, quite possibly makes these players overvalued in today's market. The best market value might have moved on to short, right-handed high school pitchers by now.
     
  9. RickStain

    RickStain Well-Known Member

    Yeah, that draft chapter did not age well.
     
  10. Azrael

    Azrael Well-Known Member

    Saddle the (baseball) dinosaurs!
     
  11. king cranium maximus IV

    king cranium maximus IV Active Member

    Well, as said above, it'd be a false claim anyway. As for just doing his job, well, good for him. Does that offer much in terms of a storyline hook for a book on advanced metrics in baseball? Nope.
     
  12. Bob Cook

    Bob Cook Active Member

    Joe Morgan is not going to see that movie Billy Beane wrote and directed about himself.
     
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