Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game

[bste_lax]

Anyone here ever read "Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game" by Michael Lewis? Really good read. I am not normally a big reader and I read this whole thing in 3 days which for me is surprising as hell that I even bought a book.

Mini-recap from amazon.com:

Billy Beane, general manager of MLB's Oakland A's and protagonist of Michael Lewis's Moneyball, had a problem: how to win in the Major Leagues with a budget that's smaller than that of nearly every other team. Conventional wisdom long held that big name, highly athletic hitters and young pitchers with rocket arms were the ticket to success. But Beane and his staff, buoyed by massive amounts of carefully interpreted statistical data, believed that wins could be had by more affordable methods such as hitters with high on-base percentage and pitchers who get lots of ground outs. Given this information and a tight budget, Beane defied tradition and his own scouting department to build winning teams of young affordable players and inexpensive castoff veterans.

My company even gets a little plug in the one chapter about Bill James.

If you are any fan of baseball, even if small, a good read.

[reLAX10]

Ya Moneyball was a solid book and preaches much of what many thought was wrong about how baseball players were evaluated. It was defintitly a book that makes you look at the players a little differently.