Zitat des Tages von Billy Beane:
Smaller markets teams, when you hit bottom, you hit with a thud.
The math works. Over the course of a season, there's some predictability to baseball. When you play 162 games, you eliminate a lot of random outcomes. There's so much data that you can predict: individual players' performances and also the odds that certain strategies will pay off.
We can't do the same things the Yankees do. Given the economics, we'll lose.
The bottom line is that any business should be a meritocracy. The best and brightest. Period.
I may not be as visible as I used to be, and by that I mean being in the clubhouse or on the field. But I'm just as invested as I've always been.
I just talked to a young lady, a freshman at Santa Barbara. She's taking a course, and Moneyball's one of the required readings. This young lady could dream of one day becoming a general manager.
