Research Paper On Moneyball

At the surface Major League Baseball seems to be an organization crafted to promote America’s pastime however, it is a multi-billion-dollar business. Moneyball turned baseball into an even larger business than it already was, now instead of resembling a children’s game it, looks more like a corporate office. With every player having a million dollar or more price tag on their shirt and most veterans having mega-million contracts, baseball has been converted into an economic game. Moneyball intended to develop a tool whereby economically low end baseball teams could apply sabermetrics to become savvy and shrewd enough to overcome the unbalance and compete with organizations that reside with luxury tax payrolls. In its wake, Moneyball created …show more content…
In the early stages of Beane’s Moneyball, it seemed to disparage the unfairness of the game but nowadays it seems to be backfiring. Once the rich baseball organizations got their hands on the Moneyball theory and began to execute it smaller clubs were back to being the underdog. Teams such as the Boston Red Sox were able to put all the pieces together of a sizeable payroll and sabermetrics and then win a World Series Championship. “Some of the large-market clubs have learned to exploit their resources across every level of the baseball operation — technology, analytics, everything,” the Indians’ Shapiro says. The fight against the exploitation of small market organization seems to be a never ending battle. “If anything, though, the Athletics face even more disadvantages today than they did at the time the book was written. Free agents shun their ballpark. The team’s future in Oakland is dicey. The gap in payrolls between the A’s and big-money teams like the Yankees only has widened” (Rosenthal). However, some analysts point out that Moneyball allows the poor teams to combat the destruction of their organizations if they are clever enough. Michael Sanserino points out that, “Small-market teams have adapted their tactics in recent years by signing young …show more content…
The ‘Moneyball Era’ may have ended but, every organization in Major League Baseball still functions with some sort of acknowledgement of sabermetrics. Most baseball teams have developed a balance between sabermetrics and classic baseball scouting. While some teams favor subjectivity and traditionalism more than the numbers game, the objectivity and success of Moneyball cannot be ignored. The advanced metrics available today are an important and indelible part of baseball. They focus on aspects of the game that traditional methods cannot reveal and at least on some level, sabermetrics factors into every front office decision. Moneyball doesn’t guarantee a championship, but when used effectively, it will enhance the ability to identify talent and build a winning