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    • November 11, 2009

    Valuing OBP

    Pizza Cutter at the Hardball Times shows that teams started to value OBP compared to home runs and RBI after the publication of Moneyball.

    Hat tip, Sabernomics, who points to other studies confirming this trend.

    I wonder how much of it was GMs reading Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game“>Moneyball, compared to the proliferation of GMs from the Sandy Alderson/Billy Beane school.

    Posted by David Pinto at 9:35 am | Books, Management | Permalink | No Comments

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