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[QUOTE="billsin01, post: 150639, member: 837"]
My bad on Hudson, but I didn't mention Chavez and Miggy other than the PED situation has nothing to do with any of this (unless you're suggesting that he encouraged PED use, which may have been his smartest move as GM). I don't remember exactly from the book, but how do you know that Mulder and Zito were drafted before advanced metrics? And regardless, it doesn't change the fact that Zito had marginal velocity and was a college pitcher when drafting college pitchers early in the first was not at all common practice.
 
Regardless, the most misunderstood aspect of Moneyball, IMO, is that he was willing to think outside the box and defy commonly accepted scouting myths to create pretty absurd success for a small market team when almost every other small market and mid-market (Baltimore anyone?) was doing nothing other than making awful financial decisions and complaining about the yankees.
 
That and scouting, the use of metrics and teams' approach to player development and retention (buying out free agent years, etc) is forever different because of the way the As operated. There is absolutely no denying this.
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