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A's revelations yet to become full revolution

By Eric Neel
ESPN.com

Thursday, May 15, 2003

Inside the Oakland A's draft room in the summer of 2002, there was a revolution going on. Old baseball logic -- scouts' emphasis on tools, look and makeup -- was flying out the window. Relatively new baseball thinking -- on-base percentage uber alles, performance analysis over visual evaluations, and college players before high schoolers -- came blowing through on the winds of change. As Michael Lewis puts it in his new book, Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game, "decades of scouting e ...

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