Author: Michael Lewis
Translator: Cahn-Byul Kim
Publisher: Businessmap
432pages | 223*152mm
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About This Book
From Publishers Weekly
Lewis (Liar's Poker; The New New Thing) examines how in 2002 the
Oakland Athletics achieved a spectacular winning record while having the
smallest player payroll of any major league baseball team. Given the
heavily publicized salaries of players for teams like the Boston Red Sox
or New York Yankees, baseball insiders and fans assume that the biggest
talents deserve and get the biggest salaries. However, argues Lewis,
little-known numbers and statistics matter more. Lewis discusses Bill
James and his annual stats newsletter, Baseball Abstract, along with
other mathematical analysis of the game. Surprisingly, though, most
managers have not paid attention to this research, except for Billy
Beane, general manager of the A's and a former player; according to
Lewis, "[B]y the beginning of the 2002 season, the Oakland A's, by
winning so much with so little, had become something of an embarrassment
to Bud Selig and, by extension, Major League Baseball." The team's
success is actually a shrewd combination of luck, careful player choices
and Beane's first-rate negotiating skills. Beane knows which players are
likely to be traded by other teams, and he manages to involve himself
even when the trade is unconnected to the A's. " `Trawling' is what he
called this activity," writes Lewis. "His constant chatter was a way of
keeping tabs on the body of information critical to his trading
success." Lewis chronicles Beane's life, focusing on his uncanny ability
to find and sign the right players. His descriptive writing allows Beane
and the others in the lively cast of baseball characters to come alive.
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