Browsing: Billy Beane

I am hardly the most knowledgeable person in the world when it comes to baseball. I’m also not the world’s greatest statistical analyst. So, knowing that it’s all about baseball statistics, why would I possibly want to read Michael Lewis’ book “Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game”?

I’ve been a baseball fan for quite some time now. I’ve heard of every statistic one can imagine, and I agree that just as Billy Beane found out, numbers aren’t everything in baseball. But at least one MLB player this season, in perhaps the weakest decision I’ve seen in a long time, thought one statistic was so important that even dignity was worth losing for it.