Research Paper On Moneyball

Moneyball!” It’s hard to know where to start about this movie because it has so many great parts in it but this is definitely a movie I would refer people to watch for fun or even to learn about the power moves that happen in the movie. This movie was about a baseball team, not just any baseball team but the Oakland A's; a team that was down recently after they had lost to the Yankees in playoffs the year before. They lost 3 stars in the offseason and didn’t have much money to get more top notch talent on their team. So at first they panicked, general manager Billy Beane had to think fast and figure out how to generate a team that could compete and help him win a world series. Billy Beane was a MLB player but things didn’t work out for him
Especially after losing three of his star players to richer teams. He had to go out on a whelm if you will and go off of theories that had never been proven. The people he had to look for support from a lot of them did not believe in his theory at first especially the head manager Art Howe! Art Howe had no clue and did not believe in his plan at all and Beane knew that. This is why making sure that his theory was right I believe was the most challenging thing he had to do because he knew if he didn’t produce that he would be fired. So he had to make some tweaks and pick players up that some would call washed up and or overvalued like Scott Hatteberge. Scott was a pitcher that everyone thought was washed up but that’s not how Billy saw him, he knew that Scott had a bad elbow injury but he still knew he had value in him. So, he signed him as a person to get on base even though they knew he wasn’t a hitter. They also showed him how to play first base as well because he would not need to throw typically. This is something that nobody liked at first but it ended up working out for
The strategies that were used in this movie to make a team of nobody’s and washed up players great is remarkable. They figured out their team’s weaknesses and went after all the small parts that they needed to make a team that stuck together and that was driven to win and prove the baseball world wrong. They kept their budget low and even though they did that, they still were able to beat most of the big and rich teams because how they analyzed each player. Each player was valuable for a certain reason and even though this sounds harsh but nobody was really a super star. The players were just pieces to a bigger puzzle. They showed the business side of baseball it’s all about what you can do for the team. They made the best moves they could while keeping the spending down. This movie was very intense but had a lot of light moments in it as well that will make you laugh but over all this movie was a straight business