Conclusion: Adapt or Die
Baseball historians and General Managers have learned to accept the phrase that Brad Pitt says in the movie Moneyball, “adapt or die.” It’s clear that there’s a new way to manage and build a team. If you cannot adapt with it and find a new way to win, then your franchise will outright fail.
People thought Billy Bean was crazy when he began this new way of thinking, even his own baseball scouts. The below video depicts an argument that Bean and his head scout got into about how Bean’s data-driven idea is totally ignoring baseball intuition from lifelong scouts.
Baseball is truly a wonderful sport that will continue to stick around for ages. And there is no doubt it my mind that it will always be experiencing some type of new change. As for now, the most impactful change that has been introduced to America’s pastime is sabermetrics. Instead of looking at a player a predicting that he is going to be an all-star, sabermetrics gives us the objective data to tag that player with. The numbers do not lie, and baseball numbers will always be expanding.
