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why would any team want to "catch up" with Billy Beane's way of general managing a team? his recent teams have been terrible, and all he does is blame the Oakland fans and the "market" his teams in, and uses injuries as an excuse. The guy is a complainer and whiner and will never win a championship. I wouldn't read that stupid book. The title say's it all......"Money" ball.........Money is what has ruined professional sports......Overpaid players, managers and idiot GM's like Billy Beane
"His teams of the last few years have been terrible"
That's because he was the first to do it, around 2001 or 2002, he knew what to look for in players and what not to look for. Part of the reason his teams have been terible the last few years is because other teams starting catching on. Oakland has a small team salary, and now that Beane's strategy has been publicized, the price of the attributes in players he liked best, have inflated and they can no longer afford what they could in 2002.
excuses, excuses..sorry I don't buy your theory. If Beane was the GM everyone seems to think he is, he'd come up with some creative ideas to put a winner on the field. Sure Beanes teams may have been the first to have some success with moneyball, but he didn't invent it like so many think. It was the A's owners in the mid 90's, Schott and Hoffman along with then GM Alderson who did. Beane was the assistant GM. Beane's teams won alot in the regular season but fell apart in the playoffs.
"he'd come up with some creative ideas to put a winner on the field."
It's hard to do with a very low payroll. And how many alternatives do you think there are? There are only so many ways to rate players by their statistics. Now that people know that it was OBP and SLG that led to a winning ballclub, the price of that skill has gone up. What can Beane do? Go back to the old conventional ways of building a team? That would be a step back. He didnt invent it, but he was smart enough to use it
"Beane's teams won alot in the regular season but fell apart in the playoffs."
This was explained in Moneyball. Small sample size. You need to have enough games and enough time for your strategy to pan out, it doesnt work in a 5 or 7 game series. Beane said this and i believe it, he said that it is only his job to get to the playoffs, whatever happens after that is luck.
Let me just add - I believe strongly that the Phillies winning the world series was complete luck. The Rays and Red Sox were better than them in almost every category. I heard a lot about how the Phillies had an "Edge". What does that even mean? It makes as much sense as clutch hitting, it's not an edge that wins ballgames, it's having the knowledge and having the time - most importantly- to win.
Beane, what a complete moron...to say that it's only his job to make the playoffs....and the payroll issue is bull......that was with the previous owners who were tight with their money........Lou Wolff has alot more, and he squandered millions in trying to move the team to Fremont......if he had instead spent what he lost in the failed Fremont move, on players like Matt Holiday and Dan Haren, who are in their prime, along with improving the Oakland Coliseum, he'd have a succesful product.
A moron? Really? Look at what he's done. If i could bring anyone to the Met's front office to replace Omar - it would be Beane. You're saying he didnt have any effect on this new way of thinking about Baseball players? What wins? What doesnt? And im sorry, but what are you saying about Holliday? The A's traded for Holliday, then made one of the greatest trades of the decade in getting ride of him. Trading a soon to be FA at the end of the season for a top prospect - sounds good to me.
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I wouldn't read that stupid book. The title say's it all......"Money" ball.........Money is what has ruined professional sports......Overpaid players, managers and idiot GM's like Billy Beane
That's because he was the first to do it, around 2001 or 2002, he knew what to look for in players and what not to look for. Part of the reason his teams have been terible the last few years is because other teams starting catching on. Oakland has a small team salary, and now that Beane's strategy has been publicized, the price of the attributes in players he liked best, have inflated and they can no longer afford what they could in 2002.
It's hard to do with a very low payroll. And how many alternatives do you think there are? There are only so many ways to rate players by their statistics. Now that people know that it was OBP and SLG that led to a winning ballclub, the price of that skill has gone up. What can Beane do? Go back to the old conventional ways of building a team? That would be a step back. He didnt invent it, but he was smart enough to use it
This was explained in Moneyball. Small sample size. You need to have enough games and enough time for your strategy to pan out, it doesnt work in a 5 or 7 game series. Beane said this and i believe it, he said that it is only his job to get to the playoffs, whatever happens after that is luck.