2009 American League Championship Series

The Role of Statistics. A game of numbers, the Moneyball effect is considered start of professional baseball statistics. Statistics play the main role in baseball. It’s made a huge change in the way baseball runs and how players are evaluated and could be rated to be drafted. Every team uses statistics and it is not an even playing field. There are high salary cap teams and there are low salary cap teams. When statistic first became a huge role in baseball because low salary cap teams…

Progress columnist Alan Gibson died last week at his home in Bent Tree of natural causes [his obituary appears on page 16A]. Gibson had been contributing his “The Essential Bad Attitude” column to the Progress since April 2008. The author of books and plays won a first place award in the largest weekly newspaper category for humor writing in the Georgia Press Association contest for the year 2013. The Bent Tree resident has never missed a weekly deadline, still working in longhand, vigorously…

to assembling a successful baseball team, fixated on overcoming serious budget deficiencies when compared to other teams. Former professional baseball player and Oakland A’s General Manager (GM) Billy Beane, takes assembling and developing a World Series winning worthy team personally upon himself to complete. By competing with teams like the New York Yankees, where resources are much more plentiful, GM Billy Beane decides to think pragmatically outside the box, adopting unfamiliar industry…

Introduction Money rules in Major League Baseball. The more money a team has, the more likely they are to do better during their season. That is why teams such as the Dodgers, Yankees, and Giants don’t have much difficulty building a strong team. With such a high salary cap, they have the ability to sign the best players. With better players, that leads to better development as well as an easier way to attract better free agents. Due to that, very rarely do teams with low salary caps like the…

in the league to stay preserved. They allow them to stay with the team the player may like for a little pay cut, to help fans keep the love they have for a player, due to the fact that he would be staying with the team the player is on for maybe his whole career. They would help make some of their decisions on salary for the fans, especially the young ones wanting to have a role model to…

won championships based off the A’s way of analytical thinking. The story demonstrates leadership because it shows overcoming adversity by trusting your process. Many critics put down the Athletics’ experiment, however, those critics soon praised what Athletics were able to accomplish after they set, at the time, the American League win streak…

still fought to try and win some money. Because there was no Tv at the time if you wanted to see a fight you had to go watch it live, and big matches in boxing could draw crowds up to five digits(1930s Boxing. n.d.). Boxing also expanded into Latin American during the 1930’s, and there were some world champions from there. Sixto Escobar became Puerto Rico’s first world champion. Mexico first world champion was Baby Arizmendi in 1934, and Cuba’s first world champion was Kid Chocolate. There…

of Major League Baseball, any person who desired to know the events of a game had to be present at the ballpark or at the location at which the game was being played. Fortunately, for the game of baseball and for the American people, in 1921, radio stations began broadcasting baseball games to the American people who could not be at the ballpark, whether it was a financial matter, if the venue was sold out, or if the people were simply unable to make it in time to see the game. American economic…

James as reverence to the Society of American Baseball Research—SABR. Yet, sabermetrics didn't pick up standard consideration until Michael Lewis' book Moneyball was distributed in 2003. Lewis chronicled the endeavors of Oakland Athletics General Manager Billy Beane, who has utilized measurable examination to direct the Athletics to five playoff appearances over the most recent eight years, in spite of working with one of the littlest payrolls in Major League Baseball. Sabermetrics has taken a…

Woodrum, Brandon 09/02/16 Microeconomics Module 3 Labor Market Question - 1 What economic principle justifies the high salaries of some professional athletes? Suppose the manager of a baseball team wants to hire a new pitcher for $4 million per year. Under what circumstances would it make sense for the team to do so? -The manager of a baseball team can hire a new pitcher for $4 million per year only if the team is doing well and earning so much that can afford the salary of new pitcher or…