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[QUOTE="billsin01, post: 149738, member: 837"]
Every single team in the majors has adopted some version of Beane's statistical analysis and everyone from scouts to front offices and media evaluate players in a completely different fashion today than they did 10 years ago. And it wasn't simply a statistical focus but a willingness to look outside the box and draft college players early for signability purposes, etc. Zito, as an example, was an absolute moneyball case b/c he was a lefty with very average velocity that they took early anyway. They also dealt him at exactly the right time. Hudson was another pitcher with less than ideal height and good, but not great stuff/measurables. He also loved guys like Youkilis, who traditionally scouts hated due to his lack of "tools" and "projectability" and made a ton of key acquisitions for those Oakland teams that won 100+ games on a $50M payroll. And he was the first GM taking advantage of other GMs fascination with "closers."
 
And as for the PEDs, you could make that argument about basically every team's best players.
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