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Stats, hunches and the battle for baseball

By Tim Keown
Page 2

Tuesday, March 11, 2008

A guy named Jeremy Brown is the latest excuse to reignite the "Moneyball" debate, and in the process re-establish "Moneyball" as the least-understood important book in sports history. Brown is the "fat catcher" from Michael Lewis's best-selling book about Billy Beane's philosophy of constructing the low-budget Oakland A's by identifying undervalued statistics that help win games. Brown was a college catcher the A's drafted in the first round, even though no other team really cared about him or ...

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