So what did those nervous baseball executives do ... That's a lot of picks, and nobody knows better than Billy Beane what to do with them: college players, college players, and more college ...
Those are the words of John Henry, owner of the Boston Red Sox, in Moneyball, talking about Billy Beane (Brad Pitt), who revolutionized baseball in much the same way Howard Dean and Joe Trippi ...
For those of you that did not read the book or see the movie, Moneyball is the story of the 2002 Oakland A’s baseball team and their unorthodox front office GM, Billy Beane. Beane had the challenge of ...
Oakland A's general manager Billy Beane, the subject of the Michael Lewis ... to do with his job as an executive than his job as a baseball evaluator, but it shows he's still willing use unusual ...
Two contemporary films reimagined the stories we tell about the sport.
Oakland A's GM Billy Beane is handicapped with the lowest salary constraint in baseball. If he ever wants to win the World Series, Billy must find a competitive advantage. Billy is about to turn ...
BC: Concocted by ESPN.com's Rob Neyer and named for Oakland A's General Manager Billy Beane, the Beane Count is derived by summing a team's ranks in home runs hit, walks drawn, home runs allowed ...
Baseball may be a sport, but it is also a business, a big business. Billy Beane had a problem that many a manager could empathize with — high ambitions for his team but only a tiny budget. Yet somehow ...