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Griffin says Moneyball is over

http://www.thestar.com/Sports/article/255769

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Basically his claim is that the typical Moneyball draftee, an unathletic guy with a high OBP, is the kind of guy most likely to take steroids because to them, steroids would be the difference between making it to the show (and major league minimum salary) and not (and minor league minimum salary), and that steroid testing has eliminated those players from the field.
In other words, he doesn't understand Moneyball, makes false assumptions about the typical Moneyball draftee (who is, by definition, someone good enough to draft but that everyone else is ignoring for some stupid reason), and uses that false predicate to criticize Billy Beane, who knows more about baseball than Richard Griffin and has used it to run a baseball team successfully for years. Thanks for playing, Rich.

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I'm not sure
it's possible for Moneyball to be "over." As you state (essentially), Moneyball is all about identifying and exploiting market inefficiencies to add the most possible wins at the least possible cost. I suppose that theoretically, it's possible for spending money wisely to be over, but that would only make moneyball more beneficial.
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman

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