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Best team in baseball today.....Oakland A's.....most successful team in the last 10 years Boston Red Sox....Billy Beane and Theo Epstein....coincidence.....maybe not.

 

The fact that Oakland has been competitive at all is amazing and that they have been so despite having turned the roster over multiple times in the last 10-15 years is incredible.  I doubt they have ever had a payroll as big as the 4 or 5 highest paid players on the Yankees during that stretch.  In fact the Yanks are in the middle of one of their worst periods since 1920 and it is not getting better for them.

 

It is impossible to contemplate running your business without the best information available.  Baseball is a multi billion dollar enterprise that has been slow to the party but is getting there and the fans are waking up to it too.

 

Flip side like anything else is that talent evaluation is more than just numbers.  There is a human element that will always be a factor and a little luck too.  Anyone that says they saw Mike Piazza being a potential Hall of Famer when he was draft eligible is lying. So Sabremetrics is another factor in the process of player evaluation to quantify what players produce. It isn't going away and the new measures will become more part of the everyday discussion. 

 

I'd also suggest part of the reason baseball is so popular is that every Joe Shmo since 1870 thinks they know more about it than the other Joe Shmo's.  Otherwise a good portion of what goes on this board would not exist.  That would be no fun, it is much better that we can prove to each other how smart we think we are!

 

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