Remember the ending of Moneyball? Owner John Henry shows Billy Beane around Fenway, offers him a lucrative contract to be the GM of the Red Sox, and even though Beane turns him down, the Red Sox implement a lot of the same strategies the A’s were using at the time to build a winner in Boston.
Baseball’s a copycat sport - the Moneyball Athletics were followed by a complete overhaul of front offices leaguewide, the bullpen-driven Kansas City Royals have become a template for most postseason rosters - and that’s only grown more true as teams use data more than ever before.