What would you do to improve a Major League Baseball team if you were a general manager? In the book Money Ball by Michael Lewis, the General Manager of the Oakland Athletics, Billy Beane, is followed for a year. Being a general manager for one of the smallest teams in the MLB is hard, but Billy makes it look so easy.
Money Ball has a few things that I can relate to. When I play MLB 2010: The Show, I always play as the general manager of a team. I always trade all my players away to get better ones. In the book, Billy trades ¼ of his roster away to get players that are better and cost less money. But he also makes some bad decisions on what to do with players, which I do a lot. It was easy for me to tell what the bad mistakes were because the book was made in 2003, and I know who the good and bad players were.
Players on a team are always important, but the person who runs the team is even more important. Billy Beane is still currently the General Manager of the Oakland Athletics, even though he got a job offer with a big market town. Baseball has always been with Billy; he played minor league baseball in the New York Mets farm system. Although the Oakland
When Billy and the A’s were on top, no one could stop them. They had 55,000 fans coming to the ballpark to watch them. Now, in 2011, they only come if it’s a rainy day or on a field trip with summer camp. That shows what can happen in 8 years with the loss of good players and no wins.
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