The MVP Machine: How Baseball's New Nonconformists Are Using Data to Build Better Players
By Ben Lindbergh and Travis Sawchik
Read by Josh Hurley
Unabridged
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3 Formats: CD
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3 Formats: Library CD
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3 Formats: Playaway
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ISBN: 9781549126352
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ISBN: 9781549126338
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ISBN: 9781549128103
Runtime: | 14.84 Hours |
Category: | Nonfiction/Sports & Recreation |
Audience: | Adult |
Language: | English |
Summary
Summary
Move over, Moneyball -- a cutting-edge look at major league baseball's next revolution: the high-tech quest to build better players.
As bestselling authors Ben Lindbergh and Travis Sawchik reveal in The MVP Machine, the Moneyball era is over. Fifteen years after Michael Lewis brought the Oakland Athletics' groundbreaking
team-building strategies to light, every front office takes a data-driven approach to evaluating players, and the league's smarter teams no longer have a huge advantage in valuing past
performance.
Lindbergh and Sawchik's behind-the-scenes reporting reveals:
- How the 2017 Astros and 2018 Red Sox used cutting-edge technology to win the World Series
- How undersized afterthoughts José Altuve and Mookie Betts became big sluggers and MVPs
- How polarizing pitcher Trevor Bauer made himself a Cy Young contender
- How new analytical tools have overturned traditional pitching and hitting techniques
- How a wave of young talent is making MLB both better than ever and arguably worse to watch
Details
Details
Available Formats : | CD, Library CD, Playaway |
Category: | Nonfiction/Sports & Recreation |
Runtime: | 14.84 |
Audience: | Adult |
Language: | English |
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