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Moneyball is a 2011 American biographical sports drama ... for a $12.5 million salary, which would make him the highest-paid general manager in sports history. In ...
Sabermetrics (originally SABRmetrics) is the original or blanket term for sports analytics, the empirical analysis of baseball, especially the development of advanced metrics based on baseball statistics that measure in-game activity. The term is derived from the movement's progenitors, members of the Society for American Baseball Research ...
The central premise of Moneyball is that the collective wisdom of baseball insiders (including players, managers, coaches, scouts, and the front office) over the past century is outdated, subjective, and often flawed, and that the statistics traditionally used to gauge players, such as stolen bases, runs batted in, and batting average, are relics of a 19th-century view of the game. [1]
Billy Beane. William Lamar Beane III (born March 29, 1962) is an American former professional baseball player and current front office executive. He is currently senior advisor to owner John Fisher [1] and minority owner of the Oakland Athletics of Major League Baseball (MLB) and formerly the executive vice president of baseball operations.
4. Paul DePodesta (born December 16, 1972) is an American football executive and former baseball executive who is the chief strategy officer of the Cleveland Browns of the National Football League (NFL). He previously served as a front-office assistant for the Cleveland Indians, Oakland Athletics, and New York Mets of Major League Baseball (MLB).
Moneyball or money ball may refer to: Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game, 2003 book by Michael Lewis. Moneyball (film), 2011 film adaptation of the book. Sabermetrics, a statistical approach sometimes referred to as "moneyball". Moneyball (game show), early 2020s British game show. A multicolored ball in the NBA's Three-Point Contest ...
Bill James. George William James (born October 5, 1949) [1][2] is an American baseball writer, historian, and statistician whose work has been widely influential. Since 1977, James has written more than two dozen books about baseball history and statistics. His approach, which he named sabermetrics after the Society for American Baseball ...
Tampa Bay Rays (2008 – 2009) Chadwick Lee Bradford (born September 14, 1974) is a former American professional relief pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) on the Chicago White Sox, Oakland Athletics, Boston Red Sox, New York Mets, Baltimore Orioles, and Tampa Bay Rays between 1998 and 2009. Bradford was a submarine -style pitcher ...