Moneyball, The Big Short, And The Ultimate Bait-And-Switch

Dec 19 2022 by Over the Monster

 
We miss the old John Henry. | Photo by Billie Weiss/Boston Red Sox/Getty Images

Trying to make sense of it all.

Moneyball is one of the five most important baseball books ever written, and given its easily absorbed central premise, it’s often used as a verb to describe building a baseball team on the cheap. In that sense, would be easy to look at the last three years and say Red Sox are Moneyballing. Judging from their words and their actions, they plainly think they’re on to...

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