For the next three days, the San Francisco Giants will be bludgeoned to death by the team they’re trying to emulate. Since they’ll never have the financial resources or fan base (seriously, check out annual revenues and attendance) of the Dodgers, it makes sense for the Billy Beane acolyte to chase the team that actually improved upon Moneyball: the Rays.
The Tampa Bay Rays have redefined success to mean the ability to hit certain physical markers observed by a laser tracking system. There is no team that lives “process over outcome” more than this team and why not?