The Houston Astros are right now the poster child for analytics. The A's as amazing as they were at Finding Talent never won a World Series. Billy Bean says, my sh** doesn't work in the playoffs. Baseball is constructed to have this very long season where randomness is sort of bled out.
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.