What happened to the As since Moneyball?

The Oakland Athletics became famous in world sport for “Moneyball” - a way to win championships without the financial clout of the big teams.

Moneyball became replicated in all sorts of sports and became a path to success. But this is a story of how Moneyball destroyed the Oakland Athletics.

Mike Smeltz explains. Illustrated by Marco Bevilacqua.

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[SKMCTV]

The worst thing Billy Beane did was advertise their strategy. Give a team with the resources of the Yankees and Dodgers an analytical front office and Oakland loses their advantage.

[DarthSmirnoff]

"To be fair to Fisher..."

Let me stop you right there.

[d.b.cooper]

I will never get over how you yanks have normalised the use of taxpayer funds to build swanky new stadiums for billionaires, who own highly profitable franchises. Bonkers, nvm the idea of moving a club to another city.

[JustKandyMan]

Billionaires and begging for public money such an inconic pairing! Can't imagine the pain of seeing a team just uproot and leave after decades of support.

[johnl.]

The 2nd follow-up movie is called “Blackmail Ball”

[sominboy]

2012 was a shock to the entire baseball world. They were so fun to watch. Tons of character and all the confidence in the world

[Grimmes]

Thanks for covering this, despite being a lifelong diehard Yankee fan I am still fascinated with the movie and is one of my favorite movies of all time.

[AlejandroRamos-hweh]

Thats what I hate about US Sports. How can you just move your city's team from one place to another like its nothing??? It's everyone's hometown team. My city has two football teams, every time they face each other the city just stops to watch the game. Imagine if they move one of the teams to somewhere else, would be unethical and really stupid

[freeguy]

Umm You're missing a vital update...What happened to Billy Beane?? Would have liked an update on what he's been up to since Moneyball

[C-Thunder]

I'm not even an A's fan (Giants fan here), I'm absolutely outraged about this. Fisher cheap self needs to sell the team. It is just horrible how the A's have nothing but bad luck with team owners.

[t.k.]

Billy Beane is now a minority owner of the As. Fenway Sports Group, which owns the Boston Red Sox, has won the World Series using Money Ball tactics. They also own Liverpool Football Club, and have won the Champions league & Premier League with these tactics.

[themustardthe]

Put an apostrophe in the title, it looks a little awkward

[thomashall]

Just finished the book so perfect timing lol

[paulibaer_]

Can anyone explain, why building a stadium for a private owned sports team is a public funding issue? In Europe this is a problem of the private company, subsidies for these kind of buildings are usually deemed illegal by EU law. Only with many exceptions public funding is done and then it is only a few per cent of the stadium. FC Valencia has to rightfully shoulder the building of the Nou Mestalla on its own, depending on the source these are a couple of hundred million Euros.

This highlights what is wrong about sports in USA...

[Tamalan]

Moneyball is a horror movie for any true Oakland fan. It starts with them losing in the playoffs, shows the team getting gutted, ends with them losing in the playoffs, and is based on the greed of the owner who has been trying to tank the team for 20 years so he can profit.

[MacrobianNomad]

The fact USian sport teams can just uproot to anywhere the owner feels like never made sense to me.

[TonySpike]

So, what you are telling me is

Oakland has technically (i say that because i think the Raiders moved to LA first) lost both its NFL team and its MLB team to Las Vegas ....wow

[VelvetRiot-hzmp]

They are moving from Oakland to Las Vegas. Usually that means lousy ticket sales and no future in the current location. For mine, I would have relocated the team to New Jersey around Newark somewhere. License to print money there.

[BlueWoWTaylan]

This kinda shows everything wrong with American sports really. Begging for Taxpayers and public to fund ridiculous stadiums for BILLIONAIRES, packing the team up and leaving...and so on.