Billy Reveals Peter's Player Selection Tactics | Moneyball (Brad Pitt, Jonah Hill)

In this intriguing scenario, my dears, doubt clouds the minds of the scouts as Billy (Brad Pitt) explains Peter's (Jonah Hill) unique player selection method.

🎬Moneyball (2011): Billy Beane (Brad Pitt), general manager of the Oakland A's, one day has an epiphany: Baseball's conventional wisdom is all wrong. Faced with a tight budget, Beane must reinvent his team by outsmarting the richer ball clubs. Joining forces with Ivy League graduate Peter Brand (Jonah Hill), Beane prepares to challenge old-school traditions. He recruits bargain-bin players whom the scouts have labeled as flawed, but have game-winning potential. Based on the book by Michael Lewis.

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[scoochman]

"Exactly...sounds like an Oakland A already."

Gets me every time! 😂

[BaldwinVoice]

Gotta love the old man at the end who understands his place.

Billy is the GM. He doesn't answer to anybody except the owner and God. These scouts are just there to advise him and then Billy is free to choose whether or not to take that advice.

[MrErizid]

FYI, in real life, the head scout of the A's was completely on board with what Beane was trying to do. He only left the A's because he got sweet job offer from the Rangers.

[manderson]

The guy who says, “he answers to no one” is a real scout that was at the real table that day in real life.

[BTG]

I love that the guy no one wanted (Hatteberg) clinches the 20th consecutive win with a home run.

[tiotito]

"Does Pete really need to be here?"
"Yes he does."

The validation

[CoCotheTurtle]

Not one scout in that room under the age of 50, and they have the balls to say, "Old Man Justice!"

[ellenchavez]

"Guys read your reports or I'm gonna point at Pete."

[Otis]

“I don’t see it”. Hes trying to chase what every other team is doing, but doesn’t realize the deck is stacked against him in that his team literally can’t afford the players he wants. And EVEN IF they find a diamond in the rough in terms of scouting a great player, the wealthy teams will just buy him up later a la Giambi and Damon. They unequivocally had to change their approach but, in his own words, he simply didn’t see it. It’s easier to think inside the box and rationalize your failures rather than risking doing something new and being ridiculed if it does not work out (or, in the instance of Bean, being ridiculed despite it working out).

[jonboxleitner]

Scott Hatteberg.
Who?
Exactly. Sounds like an Oakland A already 😆.

[samhklm]

Do you want me to speak? When I point at you yeah.

[michaelmancini]

This is one underrated movie, maybe one of Pitt’s best rolls ever, just so believable, and compelling

[ChrizGrizzly]

3:09 I just noticed it says PRATT C for chris pratt who plays scott H

[sempermilites]

It amazes me how the scouts are having such an issue with bringing in players who don't know how to play first base and that one of these players needed to be taught while earlier they were getting a hard on for another player who has a hard time hitting the ball and were defending their pick by saying they'll teach him how to play against big league pitchers.

[carrickrichards]

Amazing scene. The whole film crystalised here.

[kevinbray]

" Check your reports or I'm going to point at Pete"😂

[burrellbikes]

I laugh when they talk about the guy being a .260 hitter - when that’s doing pretty well in the modern game.

[heath]

"dat don look right dat don... Aghh"
"You gotta carry the 1"

😂 Its as authentic and American as it gets I love it

[terencej]

To be fair the best line in this movie is "yeah maybe i can teach one of them"

[horizonchaser]

I've watched this movie many times...I just don't get tired of it. I don't think at this point I can be a Spoiler but in the off chance I could be...I find Billy Beane's Character (Brad PItt) Baseball experience before becoming GM a Real Driver of the Movie. and Philip Hoffman(RIP) Character so Good. It is really a Good Story.