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[QUOTE="two3zone, post: 1865028, member: 3651"]
Not doubting that, but for a team with their financials during that time frame it kept them extremely competitive.  The "secret" didn't stay with Beane and Oakland for long, within a year or two of teams knowing what he was doing, the Yankees, Red Sox and others started to do the same thing with budgets 5 times the size.

My point is (and I know you get it), bunting a runner to second and giving up an out is a "good play" to the old school baseball crowd,  when in all reality it's crap.  Football the same, nobody ever gave us crap for the way we played football, just that we stunk at it.  We bring a different dynamic and play the numbers and see what statistically works in the game and use it to our advantage, we may not win the title, but we can stay competitive against teams that probably would have trounced us in the past.

I'm not raising the bar in expectations for this team as I do think it will take a couple of seasons to get where Babers wants us, but, with the system that we're working with, we have the opportunity to put a ton of points on the board, no matter who we're playing, same can't be said the past few years.
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