Episode Synopsis "Moneyball - Taking a look at the 2002 Oakland Athletics and Billy Beane's use of Sabermetrics"
In our second episode, we explore the use of advanced statistics (sabermetrics) in baseball, made popular by Michael Lewis's novel Moneyball, and how they were utilized by the Oakland Athletics to remain competitive despite having a significantly smaller payroll than other teams in the MLB. Tune in for an analysis of general manager Billy Beane's free agent strategy and how he found statistics that were undervalued in the player market. Thank you for listening, hope you enjoy! Thanks to Baseball Reference, The Sport Journal, Yahoo, FiveThirtyEight, Washington Post for information used in the podcast. Outro music: Positive Happy by PeriTune https://soundcloud.com/sei_peridot Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/TutcA4JPa7Q Thanks again to Andrew Catanese for the intro music!