BILLY BEANE RUMORS & GOSSIP
By Josh! Reddick was a steal!
A quick perusal at the Fangraphs' leaderboard led to a click of MLB right fielders. The leaders seemed right. Ethier is having a great season and is at the top. Beltran has been a great fit for the Cards and is belting the ball. Then listed after those two were Josh Reddick of the Oakland Athletics and Stanton and Joyce from the two Florida teams. After nodding inwardly at the...
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Billy Beane’s Draft History
Billy Beane’s Draft History
After looking at what the Astros fans could expect in the 2012 Draft from new GM Jeff Luhnow, I decided to look at Billy Beane and his history of drafting college players.
Beane is known for drafting college players and for his tirade in Moneyball for his team taking Jeremy Bonderman in the 2001 draft. The belief is that college players are closer...
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The Walk-Don’t Walk Sign Is Flashing in Oakland
Even before Billy Beane and Scott Hatteberg and Moneyball, the Oakland A’s were a team that took a lot of walks. Over the 50 years of the Expansion Era (1961-2011), the A’s ended the season with a walk rate below the league average only eight times. Of those eight seasons, in only one did the A’s have a walk rate more than one percentage point lower than the league...
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A Tale of Two Be(a)nes
Raise your hand if you remember Billy Beane's brief stint in the Majors? Now, to those of you with your hand raised...do you remember remembering Beane when you first heard the name of pitcher Bill Bene?I do.Both gentlemen were big league busts, but...that's where the similarities end.One went on to glory to as the moneyballin' General Manager of the Oakland Athletics...
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March 30, 2012
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March 30, 2012
A's extend GM Beane's contract through 2019
Oakland Athletics owner Lew Wolff has agreed to extend the contracts of general manager Billy Beane and team president Michael Crowley through the 2019 season. The deals are in the process of being finalized, Wolff confirmed to the Associated Press.Beane has been the team's general manager since 1997. Oakland finished 74-88 last year, the fifth losing season in a row.The 49-year...
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February 08, 2012
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February 08, 2012
The Oakland A’s Extend Billy Beane Through 2019
Can someone please explain to me what Billy Beane has done to deserve such a lengthy extension? I’m sorry, but Billy Beane has NEVER won a thing, and is consistently rebuilding. Does he really get a pass because of money ball? That’s just insane. It’s about results, and every other GM that hasn’t won in forever would have fired years ago.
It’s been announced...
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February 07, 2012
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February 07, 2012
A's agree to extend GM Billy Beane through 2019
Oakland Athletics owner Lew Wolff says the team has agreed to extend the contracts of general manager Billy Beane and team President Michael Crowley through the 2019 season.
Wolff, confirming comments first made on Bloomberg News, wrote in an email to The Associated Press on Tuesday that he is counting on Beane's leadership and innovation to lead the club in a new stadium in...
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February 07, 2012
Enamored Billy Beane trades for player whose birthday is entirely prime numbers
Oakland A’s--Billy Beane, the pioneer of sabermetrics and general manager of the Oakland A’s, experienced a momentary lapse in judgment yesterday, when his obsession with numbers caused him to trade a quality closer for a talentless nobody whose birth date consists solely of prime numbers.
“April 23rd, 1993. April being the third month, and three being a number...
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December 29, 2011
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December 29, 2011
The Misconceptions of Moneyball and Why Billy Beane Is No Longer Elite
Billy Beane is one of the most recognizable names in baseball. All us baseball fans know who he is, and now thanks to Moneyball hitting the big screen this summer, every one else does too.
What Beane did with the A’s in 2002 was remarkable. Free Agency disemboweled the A’s and Beane had to think outside the box to fix it. There is a misconception by many what Moneyball...
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December 10, 2011
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December 10, 2011
Could Billy Beane end up with Angels?
If there is one team that could entice Oakland Athletics general manager Billy Beane into leaving Oakland, it's probably the LA Angels, not the Chicago Cubs.
Beane practically would be going home; he is from San Diego. He finally would be joining a high-revenue franchise. Yet in Anaheim, he would face little of the outsized pressures that he would experience in an intense market...
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October 01, 2011
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