The Only Rule Is It Has to Work
Our Wild Experiment Building a New Kind of Baseball Team [Includes a New Afterword]
by Ben Lindbergh
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Recommended by 1 source and appears in Baseball, Sports, and Nonfiction.
What would happen if two statisticsminded 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 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 ...
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Recommended by 1 source and appears in Baseball, Sports, and Nonfiction.
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“Someone asked me about books to read on baseball player development and scouting this is a great place to start. Would start with these three in order: The MVP Machine Future Value The Only Rule is it Has to Work Then YOU MUST watch: The Battered Bastards of Baseball”
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