Billy Beane journeys through all aspects of baseball, from being a top high school prospect, to a Big-League player, to a front office executive. Billy Beane was in his mind, cheated by baseball, so he set out to destroy the sport of baseball as it was. Coming out of high school he was one of the top prospects in the country. After a long process including much thought and consideration, Beane chose to enter the MLB draft where he was taken by the New York Mets. Beane was the epitome of a great talent ruined by the minds of scouts and General Managers everywhere. In the old-school scouts mind a baseball player had to have at least two of four things, the ability to run, hit, hit with power, and field. It was almost impossible to find a prospect with all four and excelled at all of them. Beane was that exception. However, what scouts and managers do not look at is the mental ability of that player. Because of this Beane was not prepared for the rigor of the MLB and soon became known as a wasted talent or “bust”. …show more content…
Opportunity struck as Beane was hired as a scout for the Oakland Athletics and over the years he moved up in the ranks, eventually into the front office. Still angry at his disappointing career and wasted talent Billy Beane set out to attack the sport of baseball. Not in the conventional way but by creating a winning team in the most unorthodox way. By drafting people who appealed to stats to help win games, not to put people in the stands, by taking away riskier parts of the game and taking a more conservative view to the