Moneyball The 2011 motion picture Moneyball is based upon the Oakland Athletics 2002 baseball season. The movie opens with a quote by Mickey Mantle, “It’s unbelievable how much you don’t know about the game you’ve been playing all your life” (as cited in De Luca, Horovitz, Pitt, & Miller, 2011). His words set the tone for movie as it focuses on the management side of baseball and the relationships of those involved with building a team. Faced with the lowest budget in the industry, Billy Beane employs help of Peter Brand to use sabermetric analysis to rebuild the Oakland Athletics. Throughout the 2002 baseball season the trust in Billy and Peter grows and they both learn what it takes to become leaders in their own right in an industry
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Both Beane and Brand assume the roles of coach and coachee in different aspects of the story; growing and learning from each other through their shared commitment of developing the Oakland Athletics and proving sabermetric analysis can work in baseball.
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He pushes Brand to take a leadership role by having Brand fire or tell members they have been traded. This is extremely uncomfortable for Brand; Beane acts like an angry player and helps show Brand how to be direct and to the point. According to Velsor, McCauley, & Ruderman (2010), “In a trusting relationship, coachee know that the coach understands them, takes their challenges seriously, and will maintain a safe environment for discovery while also challenging them for greater insight and more effective action. (pg. 127).
Peter Coaching Billy Billy Beane and Peter Brand’s roles start to slowly switch during the course of the movie. As Beane is coaching Brand to become more confident in himself, his own confidence starts to slowly decreases. Beane starts to worry that no matter what he does with the team it will never be enough in the eyes of industry. Even with the Oakland Athletics having one of the greatest seasons in recorded history, Beane continues to focus solely on the last game of season. One of my favorite scenes in Moneyball is when Brand is trying to build confidence in
Both Beane and Brand assume the roles of coach and coachee in different aspects of the story; growing and learning from each other through their shared commitment of developing the Oakland Athletics and proving sabermetric analysis can work in baseball.
Billy Coaching …show more content…
He pushes Brand to take a leadership role by having Brand fire or tell members they have been traded. This is extremely uncomfortable for Brand; Beane acts like an angry player and helps show Brand how to be direct and to the point. According to Velsor, McCauley, & Ruderman (2010), “In a trusting relationship, coachee know that the coach understands them, takes their challenges seriously, and will maintain a safe environment for discovery while also challenging them for greater insight and more effective action. (pg. 127).
Peter Coaching Billy Billy Beane and Peter Brand’s roles start to slowly switch during the course of the movie. As Beane is coaching Brand to become more confident in himself, his own confidence starts to slowly decreases. Beane starts to worry that no matter what he does with the team it will never be enough in the eyes of industry. Even with the Oakland Athletics having one of the greatest seasons in recorded history, Beane continues to focus solely on the last game of season. One of my favorite scenes in Moneyball is when Brand is trying to build confidence in