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Daily Archives: October 23rd, 2009

Against “Moneyball”

Buzz Bissinger argues that Michael Lewis’ famous book “Moneyball,” which scrutinizes MLB’s Oakland A’s general manager Billy Beane’s unique way of finding and exploiting market inefficiencies, and buying this value at a discount, is wrong. Bissinger points out that the four teams in this year’s AL and NL championship series’ had a combined payroll of [...]