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The Red Sox embraced the Moneyball philosophy? Total BS.

posted 11 years ago by WorstCaseOntario
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Yeah, the Red Sox really embraced that philosophy with players like Pedro Martinez, Manny Ramirez, David Ortiz, Curt Schilling, and Johnny Damon (who they got by outbidding Oakland). All of these players were the reason they won the World Series and they were all big-money players, not a bunch of players gotten for cheap 6-figure salaries like the ones on the 2002 Oakland team. The Red Sox won the World Series that year the same way the Yankees have won their World Series: paying big money for the best players. Stating in the epilogue that they embraced the Moneyball philosophy was very disingenuous.

[–] daddysarm 9 years ago

Pedro had his WORST season as a Sox in 2004 & he was gone the next year. Come on, if you're going to post crap on the internet, at least do a tiny amount of fact checking. Otherwise, you just look like some schmuck TBJ fan from the sticks.

[–] TheFragile99 8 years ago

They did embrace Moneyball, but, it's misleading.

When Theo Epstein was hired they did embrace the moneyball philosophy by signing guys like Miller and Mueller, and trading a star like Garciaparra to focus on stronger defensive players like Cabrera and Mientkiewicz. What the movie ignores is that they already had a number of star players and made a big trade to land another with Schilling. The Red Sox used the moneyball principals to compliment star players.

The Red Sox try to be a hybrid of the A's and the Yankees. They'll use their money to acquire big money talent but they won't over-pay to retain their own players (even if they will over-pay to acquire free agents), and they place a greater emphasis on developing their own prospects than teams like the Dodgers or Yankees do these days.