{"id":274076,"date":"2026-04-18T11:12:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T11:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/274076\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T11:12:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T11:12:09","slug":"how-the-moneyball-oakland-as-reinvented-baseball-and-beyond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/274076\/","title":{"rendered":"How the \u2018Moneyball\u2019 Oakland A\u2019s reinvented baseball and beyond"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>When Billy Beane turned to the nascent discipline of data analytics to overcome a seemingly unsolvable workplace problem, his aspirations were modest. He just wanted to figure out how to beat the New York Yankees on the baseball field with a payroll about one-third their size. \u201cWe weren\u2019t sitting in our room saying, \u2018How do we create a process that\u2019s going to change the way businesses across the world make decisions over the course of the next 25 years?\u2019 \u201d says Beane, who was the general manager of the Oakland Athletics at the time.\u00a0 But after the A\u2019s emerged as\u2026<\/p>\n<p>    &#13;<br \/>\n        <a class=\"restricted-content__logo\" href=\"https:\/\/thecurrency.news\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">&#13;<br \/>\n            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thecurrency.news\/wp-content\/themes\/currency-theme\/assets\/img\/Monogram-dark.svg\" alt=\"Logo\" width=\"290\" height=\"246\"\/>&#13;<br \/>\n        <\/a>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Unlock full access to The Currency and The Wall Street Journal with an Annual membership and receive a free Samsonite suitcase \u2013 worth \u20ac235 delivered to your door.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"cta-btn\" href=\"https:\/\/thecurrency.news\/pricing\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Subscribe<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Cancel at any time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"hide_mobile\">Are you already a member? .<\/p>\n<p>        &#13;\n    <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; &#13; When Billy Beane turned to the nascent discipline of data analytics to overcome a seemingly unsolvable&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":274077,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[118770,118771,143,145,144,7496,118772,118773],"class_list":["post-274076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-baseba","tag-moneyball","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news","tag-sport","tag-the-currency","tag-wsj"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274076\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/274077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}