The book made a mockery of the management of every other baseball team. Billy was mocking them behind their backs and it was worse. The scouts thought they were things that were just true about players, when subjected to analysis proved to be false. A wave of people who are very comfortable with statistical analysis have displaced a bunch of people who actually played baseball.
No — but he does have a knack for stumbling into the perfect moment, including the recent FTX debacle. In this installment of the Freakonomics Radio Book Club, we revisit the book that launched the analytics revolution.