The Beauty of Short Hops

How Chance and Circumstance Confound the Moneyball Approach to Baseball

Nonfiction, Sports, Baseball
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Author: Sheldon Hirsch, Alan Hirsch ISBN: 9780786485840
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers Publication: January 10, 2014
Imprint: Language: English
Author: Sheldon Hirsch, Alan Hirsch
ISBN: 9780786485840
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
Publication: January 10, 2014
Imprint:
Language: English

Sabermetrics, the search for objective knowledge about baseball through statistical analysis, has taken over the national pastime. The authors argue that this approach began as a useful corrective but has come to harm baseball. The book demonstrates that the so-called moneyball approach, based on sabermetrics, offers only limited guidance for assembling a team, managing games, and evaluating player performance. Equally important, the obsession with statistics and vision of the game as wholly predictable obscure baseball’s spectacular improvisational quality. It is the game’s unquantifiable and relentless capacity to surprise—the source of wonder so central to its greatest stories and personalities—that informs any real appreciation of baseball.

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Sabermetrics, the search for objective knowledge about baseball through statistical analysis, has taken over the national pastime. The authors argue that this approach began as a useful corrective but has come to harm baseball. The book demonstrates that the so-called moneyball approach, based on sabermetrics, offers only limited guidance for assembling a team, managing games, and evaluating player performance. Equally important, the obsession with statistics and vision of the game as wholly predictable obscure baseball’s spectacular improvisational quality. It is the game’s unquantifiable and relentless capacity to surprise—the source of wonder so central to its greatest stories and personalities—that informs any real appreciation of baseball.

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