Penerbit : W. W. Norton & Company
Penulis : Michael Lewis
Kategori : Buku Impor
ISBN : 0393324818
Halaman : 320
Harga : Rp. 247.764.00
Tanggal Terbit : 2005-05
Format : PDF
Sinopsis :
Billy Beane general manager of MLBs Oakland As and protagonist of Michael Lewiss Moneyball had a problem: how to win in the Major Leagues with a budget thats smaller than that of nearly every other team. Conventional wisdom long held that big name highly athletic hitters and young pitchers with rocket arms were the ticket to success. But Beane and his staff buoyed by massive amounts of carefully interpreted statistical data believed that wins could be had by more affordable methods such as hitters with high on-base percentage and pitchers who get lots of ground outs. Given this information and a tight budget Beane defied tradition and his own scouting department to build winning teams of young affordable players and inexpensive castoff veterans.
Lewis was in the room with the As top management as they spent the summer of 2002 adding and subtracting players and he provides outstanding play-by-play. In the June player draft Beane acquired nearly every prospect he coveted and at the July trading deadline he engaged in a tense battle of nerves to acquire a lefty reliever. Besides being one of the most insider accounts ever written about baseball Moneyball is populated with fascinating characters. We meet Jeremy Brown an overweight college catcher who most teams project to be a 15th round draft pick . Sidearm pitcher Chad Bradford is plucked from the White Sox triple-A club to be a key set-up man and catcher Scott Hatteberg is rebuilt as a first baseman. But the most interesting character is Beane himself. A speedy athletic cant-miss prospect who somehow missed Beane reinvents himself as a front-office guru relying on players completely unlike say Billy Beane. Lewis one of the top nonfiction writers of his era offers highly accessible explanations of baseball stats and his roadmap of Beanes economic approach makes Moneyball an appealing reading experience for business people and sports fans alike. -John Moe Moneyball The Art of Winning an Unfair Game.
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