CSN Chicago · Oct 25, 2016
Indians looking like 'Major League' version, while both World Series teams adopt 'Moneyball' practices
STL: Jesse Rogers talks Cubs, World Series from ClevelandThe Oakland A’s were not the first MLB team to use Moneyball. It was actually the Cleveland Indians that first used a version of advanced analytics. Well, at least the fictional Indians from the 1989 movie "Major League." The main plot of "Major League" is that a rich widow becomes the owner of the Indians after her husband dies. She wants to move to the team to Miami (which did not have a team at the time), and she intentionally signs players and hires a manager who should cause the team to lose games. Losing games would cause attendance and revenues to decline enough that she could move her team to Miami.