In The Wall Street Journal last week, my friend Allen Barra argued that Moneyball had little (if any) impact on Major League Baseball. In Sports Illustrated, also last week, Theo Epstein offered his (unwitting) rebuttal:
Defense Rests, Your Honor
↵↵The book hit The New York Times best-seller list. People who own baseball teams read The New York Times best-seller list. So they started asking questions about the processes their front offices were using, and it changed things really quickly.
↵↵I link, you decide (and, ideally, add to the discussion with your comments!).
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