Topic: Billy Beane
In MONEYBALL Michael Lewis points to a baseball financial expert/lawyer in NYC named Doug Pappas who did a set of calculations covering the period '99-'01, pretty much the middle of a ten-year period in which the Oakland A's won more regular season ...
Statisticians do not often make for action heroes but next year Brad Pitt will star in the film Moneyball, the story of how Billy Beane, the general manager of the Oakland A's, used statistical analysis to overturn a century of conventional baseball ...
Someone in India recently asked me what I thought about an innovation strategy featuring a heavy dose of "imitation. Early in the book there was a discussion between A's general manager Billy Beane and his team of scouts. " Beane's analytical team ...
Ben Sheets wins for first time since September 2008 to lead A's past Orioles 6-2Ben Sheets pounded the strike zone like his old aggressive self and finally commanded his fastball, winning for the first time since September 2008 in the Oakland Athletics' ...
Athletics bring in oft-injured pitcher Ben Sheets with $10 million, 1-year dealOnce Billy Beane received positive word on Ben Sheets' throwing session last week, the Oakland general manager pounced. It was merely an hour later.Oakland took a mighty gamble Tuesday on Sheets, ...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A top prospect with the Oakland Athletics is retiring from baseball to become a priest, the major league team said in a statement on Friday.The Athletics said 23-year-old Grant Desme, an outfielder it selected in the 2007 draft ...
Duchscherer set to stay with Athletics on 1-year contract after missing 2009 campaignRight-hander Justin Duchscherer has reached a preliminary agreement on a one-year contract that would keep him with the Oakland Athletics, a person with knowledge of the negotiations told The Associated ...
Billy Beane: Bailey's success shows A's have the right formula with youthOakland Athletics general manager Billy Beane sees Andrew Bailey's rookie of the year award as reinforcement that a youth movement is the way to go.Beane says the A's would remain " ...
Building a portfolio of stocks is a little like assembling a baseball team. Billy Beane, the General Manager for the Oakland Athletics, was chronicled in Michael Lewis' book, Moneyball. If Beane were to name this quality, perhaps he would call it Time-to-Maturity ...
In baseball circles, that's an accomplishment most notably associated with Oakland A's General Manager Billy Beane, the subject of the book Moneyball, for the string of winning clubs he put together earlier in the decade on budgets that resembled the petty cash ...
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The Men Behind Moneyball: Brad Pitt ...
Brad Pitt and Billy Beane discuss their involvement in the ...2011-09-19 -
Money Ball: David Nuno Interviews Brad ...
David Nuno goes to Oakland and chats it up with ...2011-09-20 -
Moneyball - New Way of Thinking
Billy Beane has to look beyond traditional statistics like Batting ...2011-09-22
