Billy Beane has stepped down from being a player on the Oakland Athletics to have a desk job. He was very talented in scouts' eyes, but he wasn't that great actually, and he didn't really want to play. So now, he is the general manager of the Oakland A's. He obviously wants to get a lot of good players and replace some really good players they lost: Johnny Damon, Jason Giambi, and Jason Isringhausen. The problem: they have the second lowest amount of money in the MLB. Beane hires Peter Brand as his assistant general manager. And there is one more thing: Beane bases his strategy on a philosophy based on Bill James' writing: The way you see them doesn't matter, the stats do. He utilizes this strategy all the time, and people think he's crazy, like the scouts and manager. they are losing most games! But things change...
I liked this movie for one reason: it gets me to think about how we think about baseball and its structure itself. (And there's baseball in it, which is a plus.) Some parts are slow, but some parts are exciting, too. I would recommend this movie to any thinking baseball fan.
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