ARLINGTON, Texas – There was a time when baseball was collectively stealing ideas about roster building put forward by Billy Beane, David Forst and the A’s brain trust.
You’ve heard of Moneyball, right?
Moneyball principles are built around precise statistical analysis of the game, using on-base percentage and slugging percentage as the pillars a winning team. But everybody plays that game now, making it difficult for a team like the A’s to stand out the way they did a decade ago.
While the A’s are in a steady-state universe where sabermetrics are concerned, there is sunshine ahead.