Dodgers ruining baseball

[D. Bergin]

Everybody wants to "Moneyball", but when everybody else is also Moneyballing, and big market teams are now paying extra for those players that used to be a bargain, it's not quite as effective as it once was.

[BobbyStrawberry]

Originally Posted by D. Bergin

Everybody wants to "Moneyball", but when everybody else is also Moneyballing, and big market teams are now paying extra for those players that used to be a bargain, it's not quite as effective as it once was.

Somehow the Rays are still doing it better than anyone else. Whatever their secret is to unlocking pitchers' untapped talent, other teams haven't caught up with it yet.

[egri]

Originally Posted by D. Bergin

Everybody wants to "Moneyball", but when everybody else is also Moneyballing, and big market teams are now paying extra for those players that used to be a bargain, it's not quite as effective as it once was.

I always thought that book was overrated. Billy Beane always said how the playoffs were a crapshoot, but when other teams had success in the postseason and his didn't, it wasn't just bad luck. Then at the end, when it looked like he was going to go to Boston, the moves he wanted to make would have broken up the core of a team that two years later won the World Series.