I've been a stalwart champion of the Billy Beane school of statistics ever since I first read Moneyball. I've defended the idea that, in spite of never winning a Pennant, Beane's new method of collecting baseball talent has changed the game in a lot of ways and I see a lot of teams winning Pennants and World Series titles on his mad Sabremetrics, and the fact that Beane's Oakland Athletics haven't topped the summit themselves is because the team still suffers from one of the league's lowest payrolls: … more