The Only Rule Is It Has to Work: Our Wild Experiment Building a New Kind of Baseball Team
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| Rating | : | 4.41 (840 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B016IBVN6Y |
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| Number of Pages | : | 377 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-10-16 |
| Language | : | English |
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Behind the Spreadsheet In the book "The Only Rule Is It Has to Work: Our Wild Experiment Building a New Kind of Baseball Team", Ben Lindbergh and Sam Miller recount a grand adventure to take command of an independent league baseball team, with the vision of trying every idea, sane or crazy, in an attempt to achieve a winning edge. Five infielders, four outfielders, defensive shifts, optimizing lineups - everything.It was really an impossible task. Professional sports at every level are filled with highly accomplished and competitive athletes, with real lives and real egos. Now imagine walking in one day . Andrew Gargano said An Instant-Classic. As an avid listener of Effectively Wild and consistent reader of Ben and Sam's work, I know that they are statheads. I assumed this book would lean heavily on sabermetrics, the pages chock-full of numbers and advanced baseball analysis. I was wrong. This book offered much, much more.This is less of "The Book," by Tom Tango, and more of "The Soul of Baseball," by Joe Posnanski; it is more story than stat. Ben and Sam may have been the ones who got to run this indy-league baseball team, but through their writing you feel like you're right alongside them. You cringe when they're getti. The best book I've read this year Patrick Wilson I absolutely loved this book. It reads like a top-flight novel, is packed with interesting stories and details, and brings the game to life. Many of us are armchair coaches and general managers, always making recommendations and second-guessing our teams' decisions. We have the dream and we put it on a pedestal. Ben and Sam explain just how difficult it is. Sam's note and prepared speech especially hit home.But even more interesting than the baseball parts are the psychological undertones: how Ben and Sam's relationship changes during the season, the effect the season has on player
He lives in New York City.Sam Miller is the editor in chief of Baseball Prospectus, coeditor of Baseball Prospectus's annual guidebook, and a contributing writer at ESPN The Magazine. Kirby is also a cofounder and director of the Los Angeles-based improv comedy group The Society.John Pruden is a professional voice actor who records audiobooks, corporate and online training narrations, animation and video game charact
"Fun, breezy, and moving read." ---Jonah Keri, author of Up, Up, and Away
And they prove that you don’t need a bat or a glove to make a genuine contribution to the game.. Their story in The Only Rule is it Has to Work 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: 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. The New York Times bestseller about what would happen if two statistics-minded outsiders were allowed to run a professional baseball teamIt’s the ultimate in fantasy baseball: You get to pick the roster, set the lineup, and decide on strategies -- wi