Turning wide receivers into cornerbacks since two-thousand and fifteen.
In 2015, the citation of a player's on-base percentage is almost as common to a baseball broadcast as old mainstay statistics such as batting average or total hits. The idea seems natural to observers now, that reaching first base via a walk is a desirable outcome, but there was a period in baseball history when the simple arithmetic of on-base percentage was not widely considered in the market. Billy Beane and the Oakland Athletics, as famously detailed in Moneyball, were able to exploit this inefficiency in the market and construct an effective roster with famously lacking financial resources.