Billy Beane became the first general manager to fully implement a statistics-driven approach into the management of an MLB team.The MLB’s growing salaries made it difficult for small market teams such as the Oakland Athletics to retain star players.The three main takeaways from Moneyball are: Beane was a successful general manager, in part because he eagerly embraced a sabermetrics approach to baseball. This strategy built on the ideas of baseball writer, Bill James, who began advocating a statistical approach to baseball in the 1970s, one he called sabermetrics.Īt the center of this strategy was Oakland Athletics General Manager Billy Beane. Management’s unconventional but statistically supported, analytical approach to selecting players was key to their success.
Despite their small payroll, the A’s consistently managed to make the playoffs and set an American League (AL) record of 20 consecutive wins in 2002.
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