'Moneyball' author makes stunning admission about analytics use in baseball

'Moneyball' author makes stunning admission about analytics use in baseball

The biggest thing the Oakland Athletics were known for over the last 25 years was the use of analytics to find value in players when they could not compete with teams that had bigger wallets and more money to spend in free agency.The math-driven strategy was chronicled in the book "Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game," written by Michael Lewis. The author wrote about the 2002 A’s team led by Art Howe and Billy Beane and how an analytica…

‘Moneyball’ author makes stunning admission about analytics use in baseball

Read Time:2 Minute, 39 Second The biggest thing the Oakland Athletics were known for over the last 25 years was the use of analytics to find value in players when they could not compete with teams that had bigger wallets and more money to spend in free agency. The math-driven strategy was chronicled in the book “Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game,” written by Michael Lewis. The author wrote about the 2002 A’s team led b…