There was a book written by Michael Lewis in 2003 called the "Moneyball: The Art of Winning at an Unfair Game." This book was a bestseller for Lewis. This book challenged the concept, you must pay professional baseball players millions of dollars if you want to win and be a successful team. The book was based on the profession baseball team the Oakland "A's and there general manager Billy Beane and his analytic, evidence-based, sabermetric approach to assembling a baseball team. His team regular won over 90 games a year and made it to the playoffs every year even though they were one of the lowest revenue teams in the league. The Oakland "A's"" have more wins than most other professional baseball teams, but they pay their players a much lower salary than the rest of the teams in the league. They usually recruit undervalued players or players no one else wants anymore. His concept helps to get away from the having to look a certain way or being a little different means never having a chance at a professional career. .
The "A's" judge on athletic ability instead of on looks, which helps recognize talent that was overlooked by bigger teams. The "A's"" were forced to trade some of their all-star players because they could not afford to keep them throughout their seasons. Even with the loss of their best players they were able to recruit newer cheaper players based on Beane's theory and still continued to win, proving the theory really most work. They are forced because of lack of funds to find talent where no other team does. Most recruits are only looking at speed, stolen bases, runs batted, home runs, batting average and pay top dollar for players that have the best of all these. Billy Beane's approach was totally different and the baseball community was not very open or accepting of his new approach. His approach focuses more on slugging percentage and on base percentages. His approach and theory shows payroll does not matter as much as studying the games statistics.
