The Only Rule Is It Has To Work: Our Wild Experiment Building A New Kind Of Baseball Team
by Sam Miller /
2016 / English / EPUB
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The
TheNew York Times
New York Times bestseller about what would happen
if two statistics-minded outsiders were allowed to run a
professional baseball team
bestseller about what would happen
if two statistics-minded outsiders were allowed to run a
professional baseball team
It’s the ultimate in fantasy baseball: You get to pick the
roster, set the lineup, and decide on strategies -- with real
players, in a real ballpark, in a real playoff race. That’s what
baseball analysts Ben Lindbergh and Sam Miller got to do when an
independent minor-league team in California, the Sonoma Stompers,
offered them the chance to run its baseball operations according
to the most advanced statistics. Their story in
It’s the ultimate in fantasy baseball: You get to pick the
roster, set the lineup, and decide on strategies -- with real
players, in a real ballpark, in a real playoff race. That’s what
baseball analysts Ben Lindbergh and Sam Miller got to do when an
independent minor-league team in California, the Sonoma Stompers,
offered them the chance to run its baseball operations according
to the most advanced statistics. Their story inThe Only Rule
is it Has to Work
The Only Rule
is it Has to Work is unlike any other baseball tale you've
ever read.
is unlike any other baseball tale you've
ever read.
We tag along as Lindbergh and Miller apply their number-crunching
insights to all aspects of assembling and running a team,
following one cardinal rule for judging each innovation they try:
We tag along as Lindbergh and Miller apply their number-crunching
insights to all aspects of assembling and running a team,
following one cardinal rule for judging each innovation they try:it has to work.
it has to work. We meet colorful figures like general
manager Theo Fightmaster and boundary-breakers like the first
openly gay player in professional baseball. Even José Canseco
makes a cameo appearance.
We meet colorful figures like general
manager Theo Fightmaster and boundary-breakers like the first
openly gay player in professional baseball. Even José Canseco
makes a cameo appearance.
Will their knowledge of numbers help Lindbergh and Miller bring
the Stompers a championship, or will they fall on their faces?
Will the team have a competitive advantage or is the sport’s folk
wisdom true after all? Will the players attract the attention of
big-league scouts, or are they on a fast track to oblivion?
Will their knowledge of numbers help Lindbergh and Miller bring
the Stompers a championship, or will they fall on their faces?
Will the team have a competitive advantage or is the sport’s folk
wisdom true after all? Will the players attract the attention of
big-league scouts, or are they on a fast track to oblivion?
It’s a wild ride, by turns provocative and absurd, as Lindbergh
and Miller tell a story that will speak to numbers geeks and
traditionalists alike. And they prove that you don’t need a bat
or a glove to make a genuine contribution to the game.
It’s a wild ride, by turns provocative and absurd, as Lindbergh
and Miller tell a story that will speak to numbers geeks and
traditionalists alike. And they prove that you don’t need a bat
or a glove to make a genuine contribution to the game.