Billy still spouts the same baseball dogma: he tells Volcker that his team’s success is a random fluke, nothing more. But although Billy doesn’t believe his own presentation, he doesn’t know what, precisely, accounts for his team’s success in recent seasons.
Ch7- Starts with Yankees and the A’s at the beginning of the 2002 season. We also see another side of Paul. Paul, unlike Billy isn’t temperamental or emotional about baseball. He’s intelligent but he comes from a sports background, which makes it all the more surprising that he can remain so nonchalant about team games. Paul’s statistical methods is that they allow him to replace individual athletes, such as Jason Giambi, with multiple athletes who, when put together, recreate the …show more content…
Thus, he’s not concerned or embarrassed when Jeremy Giambi performs badly.
Ch8-Chapter Eight is narrated by Scott. He has suffered a serious accident, and, as a result, his salary is cut back, since his GMs assume that he can’t play. The A’s, on the other hand, think that he is still enormously useful as a hitter—thus, they play him as a first baseman so that he’ll be able to hit, too. Hatteberg is amazed, since he’s never played first base. Although sabermetrics can engineer a seeming incredible team, the team isn’t invincible. Thus, Billy is forced to trade many of his players halfway through the season. However, as the season goes on, Hatteberg becomes a more confident player. Hatteberg is another representative example of the sabermetric approach to baseball: although he isn’t much of a power hitter, he’s an extremely disciplined batter who never swings at bad balls.
Ch10- The Oakland A’s succeed not only because of Paul’s sabermetric approach to hiring talent, but also because of Bill Beane’s savvy trades, which we learned about in the previous chapter.Just as some pitchers set the tone for an entire baseball game, Chad Bradford could be said to set the tone for Michael Lewis’s book: his unlikely success, despite many
Ch7- Starts with Yankees and the A’s at the beginning of the 2002 season. We also see another side of Paul. Paul, unlike Billy isn’t temperamental or emotional about baseball. He’s intelligent but he comes from a sports background, which makes it all the more surprising that he can remain so nonchalant about team games. Paul’s statistical methods is that they allow him to replace individual athletes, such as Jason Giambi, with multiple athletes who, when put together, recreate the …show more content…
Thus, he’s not concerned or embarrassed when Jeremy Giambi performs badly.
Ch8-Chapter Eight is narrated by Scott. He has suffered a serious accident, and, as a result, his salary is cut back, since his GMs assume that he can’t play. The A’s, on the other hand, think that he is still enormously useful as a hitter—thus, they play him as a first baseman so that he’ll be able to hit, too. Hatteberg is amazed, since he’s never played first base. Although sabermetrics can engineer a seeming incredible team, the team isn’t invincible. Thus, Billy is forced to trade many of his players halfway through the season. However, as the season goes on, Hatteberg becomes a more confident player. Hatteberg is another representative example of the sabermetric approach to baseball: although he isn’t much of a power hitter, he’s an extremely disciplined batter who never swings at bad balls.
Ch10- The Oakland A’s succeed not only because of Paul’s sabermetric approach to hiring talent, but also because of Bill Beane’s savvy trades, which we learned about in the previous chapter.Just as some pitchers set the tone for an entire baseball game, Chad Bradford could be said to set the tone for Michael Lewis’s book: his unlikely success, despite many