Sentences with phrase «about baseball talent»

Not exact matches

But just eyeballing it, it looks like the Giants gave up about as much talent as any team in baseball, with Matt Duffy and his five years of team control going for the enigmatic Matt Moore, along with a high - profile international free agent from last year and a projectable, hard - throwing right - hander.

In 2012, we weren't just spending our time thinking about how awful the Astros were going to be; we were also thinking about the best organization in baseball, loosely defined as the team with the best talent on the roster, the best talent in the farm, the best minds making the decisions, and the resources to complement it all.

As they talked about the 2008 Rays, a youngteam with plenty of talent but no real tradition, a club that was causing fitsin its division for two of the most storied franchises in baseball history, they realized that they just as easily could have been talking about the» 69Mets.

The steroid era sure seems like it was the era of steroids, but it's still probably improperly named, since there were plenty of other aspects at play that caused offense to rise: smaller ballparks, multiple expansions in the decade that (temporarily) diluted the talent pool in MLB, and juiced baseballs as proven by studies at the University of Massachusetts Lowell and written about by Jay Jaffe.

Pooling massive amounts of data allows patterns and trends to emerge that aren't apparent in small, individual studies, and the applications are virtually infinite — think Moneyball, the 2003 best - selling book about how the perennially cash - strapped Oakland A's used analytics and baseball stats to scout overlooked talent.

It has an opinion about Major League Baseball opening mills in the Dominican Republic in search of talent with which to line their coffers and fill their stadiums — and that opinion is that it's not as simple as you perhaps think.

Selling audiences on a baseball movie is hard enough - selling them on a movie about baseball statistics would've been impossible, if not for the presence of Brad Pitt, the comedic talent of Jonah Hill, and a crackling script from Aaron Sorkin, who already won an Oscar for making a Facebook movie into a cultural event.