Expository Essay of Money Ball

Authors Note: This is an Expository essay of Money Ball in here it explains the climax and how they got the resolution.

In the book Money Ball it starts out with introducing the General Manager of the Oakland Athletics Billy Beane. The A’s in the early 2000’s were a halfway decent team making the playoffs every once in a while. Well Billy Beane want it to be the A’s make the playoffs every year so the main conflict is the A’s are not winners and he wants the A’s to be perennial winners.

In the beginning of the season Billy Beane made some moves to get players that he thought were going to help his team. Most of these players were not household names they were the type of players that usually start on the bench not in the field. He picked these players because he was using a new system of scouting by using the electronics keeping the statistics. The part in the story which I think is the climax is the start of the baseball season because he got the players he needed to be a good team and after the season starts, they can’t go back they have to stick with the players they have.

In the end of the book the A’s eventually are into to the playoffs but they did not go as far as they wanted. Billy Beane was able to resolve his conflict by making midseason and off season trades and signings to get the players necessary to be capable of making the playoffs. Billy Beane did such a good job as the General Manager of the Athletics that after the season when his contract was up with the A’s he was offered to be the General Manager of the Red Sox. He turned down the job because he said “I still have to finish what I started with the A’s.”