Billy Bean had his own idea about where to find future major league baseball players. He flirted with the idea of firing all the scouts and just drafting the kids straight from Paul's laptop. "I feel like you must have been curious about how these characters, Billy Bean or Paul D. Podesta were representative of a new way of thinking that could be extremely valuable in many realms," he says.
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.