How Moneyball RUINED the Oakland A's 

Well you’re acting as if the true inventor Beane not being a major part of other teams success with it

Exactly! WTF the title of this video makes no sense

In a way, it sort of has, Schott & Hofmann basically sold the team in 2005 because it looked like a good purchase for Fisher at the time. However the new owner will not just going to spend lots of money if the "moneyball" model works. Schott and Hofmann swindled Fisher.

Ownerships abuse of the moneyball idea is how it ruined them

Yea and now gave boston the bright idea to do the same thing even though they have infinite money

Wtf!!

Absolutely. And not enough credit is given to their elite development that came in the late 90s

And Beane just shrugged it all off. He thought the postseason was an 'unfair' assessment, because the short-series format was 'random'. And yet, the teams they played in those 'random short series' just won, without whining about the format.'Oh, I wish we could have beaten them in a seven-game series'.

They did what they had to do to get into the postseason. You first have to GET there to have a chance to win.

@@trwent And once they gave themselves the chance, they missed all but a handful of chances...just enough to lose in five games, four years in a row, with mind-numbing sameness.

@@trwent yes, their strategy worked over the course of the regular season because they are also competing against teams with bad pitching and defense. That strategy didn’t work against teams that could manufacture runs and put aces on the hill with great command. They had Zito, Mulder and Hudson pitching together for 5 years and couldn’t get out of the first round.

This. Agree.

#legalizeroids

@@InDepthBaseballYT eh roids got too many side effects. Now if they made something that made injuries go way down I would be very down with that.

It really is crazy how fast it has changed

Exactly

To an extent. Moneyball at its core (ignoring the cheap owners) is trying to find market inefficiencies and exploiting them. There are always going to be ways that big market teams waste money or miss undervalued aspects of the game. You could argue that the market gets more and more efficient, but there are always gaps.

Really appreciate this my guy

adjusting for inflation, the payroll is actually worse now than in the 2000s I believe

@@InDepthBaseballYT I just compare to what it was then.. vs what it is now.. and look at the rest of the league.. back then.. even the Yanks were just over 100M.. now, only 2 teams may not be.. and Oakland is still paying what they did back then.. ~50-70M for the team.. Oakland is paying less than what the Dodgers are actually giving to Ohtani...again.. they are no longer trying..

It’s STILL Chavez?! Wow.

A gimmick???? WTF are you talking about? Every team has adopted this philosophy in one way or another from the Oakland A’s.

@@jonathangasana ANd notice how the A's has not won the pennant once since money ball. Results matter. Yanks, Redsox, Astros Giants and even the Dodgers laugh at Oakland. Billy Beane even made fun of the Mets and guess what even the Mets won a pennant in that time. The A's have accomplished Jack S****

The rays and royals copied the "gimmick". Lol wtf

@@kenw2225 Answer me this Batman? why do those other teams have success where the Oakland A's have been failures for the past decade!? Maybe just maybe there is more to creating a competitive team then just sabermetrics or Money ball theory 🤔

The playoffs are a total crapshoot. In a sample size of 5-7 games anything can happen

Grew up in the bay area and making this video brought a lot of nostalgia back despite not being an A’s fan

Moneyball ideas are not hypothetical stats tho

1. Proof read before posting. 2. Yes the astros cheated. Get over it already ffs

He didn’t mention 2017

As a Yankees fan, I have watched them spend tons of money this millennium only to get bounced by "poorer" teams in the playoffs. They have two World Series from 2000 on, but the first one was really more the result of what they had built pre-mega-deal era (not that they were poor then), largely by the great Gene Michael. The 2009 World Series relied on big contracts, but considering how many of the big contracts they gave out before and after were massive disappointments, it was a pathetic return on investment. The Dodgers seem like they are now trying their best to outdo the Yankees in this regard. Each year a new superstar, and still only one 60-game-fan-less-pandemic-season World Series to show for it. Always being bounced by "lesser" teams. The moral of the story? Money doesn't mean much if the organization doesn't know how to spend it wisely or properly utilize what they spent it on.

Thank you man. It means a lot

Appreciate it my man

Theres reasons as to why each single season is good and bad

Were on the same side my guy