👍Great video, Professor! Michael Lewis IS the best nonfiction writer of our time, and despite the controversy, this IS one of great ⚾ baseball stories! (Like it or not!) 😎✌️

I find it to be extremely interesting that Joe Morgan was a critic, because Morgan, a Hall of Fame talent, was overlooked by many MLB teams for being “too small.”

@thebaseballprofessor

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You'd think small and fat ballplayers would naturally connect with the Moneyball approach. Morgan had such a knee jerk opposition to the notion that statistics could provide new insights.

Excellent video. Jim Bouton’s ball four had a huge impact as well. Great book too.

Well written and delivered. Your tone of voice and honest story telling is refreshing and entertaining.❤Cheers

@thebaseballprofessor

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Thanks for the comment.

Thank you for sticking up for John Kruk 😂

This is a great channel. You should have half a million subscribers, at least.

As a SABR member, I'm always appreciative of a shout out to my history nerd people!

Well done Prof. Keep up the good work!

Am a bit surprised and annoyed that this video remains "undiscovered" because it has some great insights! The mystery of the algorithms....? 🤔

@thebaseballprofessor

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I really appreciate the comment. I thought the title, "Moneyball", would generate more interest. After all, it's a bestselling book and commercially successful film. Algorithms are indeed mysterious. I have short videos lined up for this Friday and the next so I'm wondering if increased activity will get my stuff recommended to more people by the all-powerful KZread.

Have you started Inning One of your Shadowball documentary yet?

I feel like Moneyball, StatCast, and Sabrmetrics have taken the soul out of pro baseball. Now it's all min-maxed to things like launch angle, pitch spin rate, who gets more hits in home games on Mondays, and other stuff that nobody cares about.

@thebaseballprofessor

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"Statistics are used much like a drunk uses a lamppost: for support, not illumination." - Vin Scully

Sell the team!

Baseball went *woke.* Have fun 'fans.' *lol*