Moneyball: The Fatal Story Of Moneyball

Moneyball chronicles the statically story of the Oakland Athletics baseball team. The team was the lowest spending in the big leagues. Miraculously the team would finish near the top of the league and make it to the playoffs. Moneyball explains how this happened, and how it changed baseball forever. The story started with Billy Beane, a breakout high school star. Beane was a kid who was six feet tall in the 6th grade. He had the five tools in baseball- hitting, fielding, running, pitching and throwing. As high school came around he was the top recruit for the baseball draft by many scouts. Beane was also a phenomenal student, who parents wish was for him to go to Stanford. Beane was not interested in playing professional baseball, he had his

But undenounced to the scout of that era, Beane’s stats had been gradually going down since his sophomore days in high school. He also had an anger issue, he did not handle striking out well if he stuck out during a game he likely would not get another hit that night. So when Beane started in the majors he lost his spot on the major league team, and played triple “A” ball in order to regain his skills. The skill he had never returned to him, and he eventually retired for being a player. Although Beane’s player career was unsuccessful, his stint as a manager were quite the opposite. Beane became the manager for the Athletics with a different approach to baseball in mind. Unlike the scouts that had misjudged his skill, and lead to his troublesome career, Beane focused on stats. These approach was completely new to all the parties in baseball. When Beane along with the computer scientist Paul DePodesta, started using sabermetrics, a coined termed by the early statistician of the game. The most prominent was these statistician was Bill James, who began publishing Baseball Abstracts yearly in the mid 1970’s. James questioned the major league teams’ inability to use