October 11, 2018
Billy Beane
Paul DePodesta
Daniela Duran
This was a great article Jose! I really like how you provided many explanations about the way baseball and its statistics work, because for someone that does not know much about baseball, that is extremely useful! I am impressed by the faith that Beane had on his own plan, and I believe he is an example to follow on how we must trust our own instincts and ideas, even when everyone thinks they are crazy. Importantly, he proved to the world that not everything is about money, nor about having the best-paid players…it is simply about knowing how to manage things for the good of the entire team.
22/10/2018
2:47 pm
Lamont Traylor
This article honestly makes me appreciate the work that TSA workers do in finding bombs or to a lesser extent, just things that people bring onto planes that they know could be harmful to the flight of the plane and to the passengers that are also flying in the plane. That Malaysian airline must have had some slip up in the TSA part of the airport.
27/10/2018
2:47 pm
Megan Copeland
This was a very well written and researched article. There were so many proven details throughout this article that helped me understand the article more. I think it is so cool that Beane believed in himself so much and was able to achieve his goals. He proved that baseball is more than just all star players but it has so much to do with managing and keeping the team well organized.
28/10/2018
2:47 pm
John Berka
This article was very well done and quite interesting! As a baseball fan myself I always enjoy reading about underdogs and long shot teams and this Oakland A’s team sure fits that bill. Although I do follow baseball I had never heard of Billy Beane before reading this. Nowadays all these statistics seem so overblown by everyone that it’s hard to believe that just a little over a decade ago these stats were hardly even used.
05/12/2018
2:47 pm
Octaviano Huron
What an interesting story! I had played baseball up until high school, but I had never paid attention to just how much strategy was used to not only play the game, but how to utilize the players and their overlooked abilities. I liked how Beane and DePodesta proved to the entire league that money and success are not interchangeable, and that the former doesn’t always result in the latter. Overall, very intriguing article.
10/02/2019
2:47 pm
Andres Cano
I think this article values an aspect of baseball that not many people know about and I commend the author for taking his time to recognize the undervalued statistics that make role-players important, not just in baseball. Growing up I always batted with a good batting average, but since I grew up in a family of math freaks, me and my dad would calculate my own stats in my little league games. Although I never had the best batting averages on the team, when I was 11-12 years old, I saw seasons with .800 on base percentage, which made me a valuable leadoff hitter. Because I was a small player, it was easy to see that I didn’t have as much power as some of the other boys on the field, but one day I got picked for a team that saw my value and we went and won a Championship.
17/02/2019
2:47 pm
Bianca-Rhae Jacquez
This article is very interesting and it shows people a side of baseball many wouldn’t understand. I am a huge baseball fan and I enjoy a good underdog story. The Oakland A’s is a team that many look past but they are the ones that opened so many doors for people. With out the use of statistics baseball would be a different game. Now a days everyone judges a played by their stats from major league to t-ball.
24/02/2019
2:47 pm
Sebastian Portilla
Baseball is such an amazing and exciting sport. I love it! Statistics really made the game more exciting and interested. The top baseball players with the incredible numbers such as batting average, home runs or RBIs would be considered the elite players. Though stats did impact the game greatly. Before stats the game was about just about contributing to the team. That still exists but sometimes Nowadays its more self centered.
15/09/2019
2:47 pm
Jose Maria Llano Aranalde
Its really interesting to see the general manager and his assistant not following the norm and doing what they believed in. No one else in baseball was doing what they were doing. Both of them truly believed in their plan and give up on it. They showed that money isn’t everything in sports. Money is a big part but so many teams don’t invest in players and coaches properly and that’s why they never win. They were able to change the organization without having to buy big free agents like the rest of the teams.
19/09/2019
2:47 pm
Lamont Traylor
I don’t really like, pay attention to, or care about baseball but I do play basketball and volleyball and I tried to imagine what those sports would be like if they did not have statistics and I came to the conclusion after reading this article that it would be terrible if we didn’t have stats for our sports. Stats are very important when it comes to telling who is good and bad at the sport.
21/10/2018
2:47 pm