Moneyball
From BR Bullpen
The Michael Lewis book Moneyball (ISBN 0393324818), created quite a stir in the baseball community in 2003. A story that focused on the success of Billy Beane and the Oakland A's, Moneyball became the center of the debate between the new school sabermetric side of baseball and the old school method of scouting.
A big segment of the book was based upon the A's 2002 draft. Due to its notoriety, the A's 2002 draft of Joe Blanton, Nick Swisher, Mark Teahen, Jeremy Brown and others have been often referred to as the "Moneyball Draft".
Other major characters in the book include A's 1st Baseman Scott Hatteberg, A's reliever Chad Bradford, former Dodgers General Manager Paul DePodesta, and statisticians Bill James and Voros McCracken.
