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From Dairy Daddies to Trash Pandas: How branding creates fans for lower-league baseball teams
Baseball people believed they knew the answers to those questions, and all the others. But those assumptions hadn’t been tested in decades, if ever, so it shouldn’t be surprising that many of them turned out to be wrong. From that gap between the assumed and the actual, Beane and his assistants were able to use their limited budget to construct div
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The MVP Machine: How Baseball's New Nonconformists Are Using Data to Build Better Players
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“The last few games I’ve been getting a few more high fives in the dugout, people starting to talk a little more. You gotta earn it. It’s not given. Everything is earned.”
Ben Lindbergh, Sam Miller • The Only Rule Is It Has to Work
Yet the Barry Bonds of the Pacific Association was considered a borderline candidate for high-A, which is three levels below the big leagues. Baseball is hard.
Ben Lindbergh, Sam Miller • The Only Rule Is It Has to Work
Angel Hernandez to retire immediately
In 1930, he led the league in wins and saves (though it would be decades before the save became an official statistic).
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Three Nights in August: Strategy, Heartbreak, and Joy Inside the Mind of a Manager
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