http://www.babygotbooks.com/2006/05/10/built-to-win/ Your head will collapse if there's nothing in it Tue, 07 Feb 2012 12:16:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.babygotbooks.com/2006/05/10/built-to-win/comment-page-1/#comment-509 DJ Cayenne Fri, 12 May 2006 18:57:10 +0000 http://www.babygotbooks.com/2006/05/10/built-to-win/#comment-509 Your boss and Joe Morgan should get together. Who cares who the TRUE architect of the A's success is? It is really beside the point. The Moneyball <em>idea</em> is the crux of the matter. Finding undervalued players and building a team out of it. And it doesn't have to be done on a shoe-string budget without full-time professional scouts. Theo Epstein is a Moneyball enthusiast in Boston, he values sabremetrics, but no one is going to accuse him of being on the cheap. It seems that Moneyball is a Rorschach test for many baseball people, they are able to project whatever they don't like onto it and call it crap. Your boss and Joe Morgan should get together. Who cares who the TRUE architect of the A’s success is? It is really beside the point. The Moneyball idea is the crux of the matter. Finding undervalued players and building a team out of it. And it doesn’t have to be done on a shoe-string budget without full-time professional scouts. Theo Epstein is a Moneyball enthusiast in Boston, he values sabremetrics, but no one is going to accuse him of being on the cheap. It seems that Moneyball is a Rorschach test for many baseball people, they are able to project whatever they don’t like onto it and call it crap.

]]> http://www.babygotbooks.com/2006/05/10/built-to-win/comment-page-1/#comment-507 Nitro Nicole Fri, 12 May 2006 15:15:37 +0000 http://www.babygotbooks.com/2006/05/10/built-to-win/#comment-507 So I did finally finish reading Moneyball and I'm not going to post on it because I'm already sick of talking/thinking/living baseball and it's only May 12th. That being said - I think it is a fascinating concept that a sports team can be created from computers and statistics. I never realized how "intelligent" a game that baseball was. According to my boss though, Billy Beane was really not the brains behind the Moneyball concept and it was really Sandy Alderson so in his view - the book is shit.... So I did finally finish reading Moneyball and I’m not going to post on it because I’m already sick of talking/thinking/living baseball and it’s only May 12th. That being said – I think it is a fascinating concept that a sports team can be created from computers and statistics. I never realized how “intelligent” a game that baseball was. According to my boss though, Billy Beane was really not the brains behind the Moneyball concept and it was really Sandy Alderson so in his view – the book is shit….

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