I love what I do. That’s one of the reasons I’ve stayed. I love the community; I love driving to work. Billy Beane Read Quote
When I first came into baseball, people didn’t want to hear that a team was a business. But it is. And the better the business is run, the healthier the team on the field is going to be. Billy Beane Read Quote
We try to create a situation where we’re the casino. It’s like how an actuary would set insurance rates. Predictability, predictability, predictability. What’s the path to least risk? What’s the greater chance of getting some return on this asset? Billy Beane Read Quote
In baseball, you can do something poorly and still get credit. A pitcher could throw a bad ball, the batter hit a screaming line drive, and an outfielder make a fantastic diving catch. Yet, when you look at historical databases, 80% of the time when a ball is struck with that trajectory and velocity, it is a hit. Billy Beane Read Quote
We’ve got to use every piece of data and piece of information, and hopefully that will help us be accurate with our player evaluation. For us, that’s our life blood. Billy Beane Read Quote
The idea that you can create a template that will work forever doesn’t happen in any business. There’s some really, really bright people in this business. You can’t do the same thing the same way and be successful for a long period of time. Billy Beane Read Quote
The math works. Over the course of a season, there’s some predictability to baseball. When you play 162 games, you eliminate a lot of random outcomes. There’s so much data that you can predict: individual players’ performances and also the odds that certain strategies will pay off. Billy Beane Read Quote
