In the business world, everything is an asset, and the asset, whether is valued, unvalued, overvalued or undervalued, it comes with a price. In order to survive in the baseball business world, a low budget team like Oakland A’s needs a new way to win the inequitable game. For Billy Beane, undervalued assets seem to be the only choice considering their deteriorating financial situation, being that they do not have the same amount of resources compared to the Yankees or Red Sox. I will demonstrate undervalued assets against to potential valued assets, what makes the undervalued assets, and why Oakland A’s cannot win the game to the end even with the hidden treasure they have newly discovered. Undervalued assets as properties that are assessed at a lower value than what it is normally given, and for the potential valued assets, it is an assessment made by some sorts of predictions. Under certain circumstances, potential valued assets may contain no value at all. The differences between them will be illustrated through the methods that are used in baseball player scouting. The traditional scouting technique divides a player’s ability into five main categories: hitting, power, fielding, arm strength, and foot speed. This method measures a player’s future potential value but not the …show more content…
I have talked about undervalued assets and potential valued assets, the factors that make assets undervalued, and the unspoken rule that exist in the professional baseball world. So far, it seems impossible to win the game as it is an unfair game in the beginning. For a team like Oakland A’s, innovation was their only advantage. They had nothing to lose, so nothing would make their situation worse. They were the first one ever, who tried to challenge the traditional pro-ball system and discovered a new way of running a baseball