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Llabyenom: The Art Of Forgetting What Made You Win

First and foremost, let me wish a happy 94th birthday today to the amazing Betty White. Still acting, still beautiful, still able to put a better xFIP than Jim Johnson. I feel like Betty White is such an icon that tomorrow, they ought to just declare it a Federal holiday.

What I marveled at over the past two decades was the A's front office's uncanny ability to identify players who could, younger and cheaper than their higher profile peers, provide comparable value. In Moneyball, Scott Hatteberg became a poster boy for the concept as Oakland sought not to replace Jason Giambi but rather to replace his production.