
The Only Rule Is It Has to Work
Our Wild Experiment Building a New Kind of Baseball Team
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Narrado por:
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Kirby Heyborne
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John Pruden
It'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 an independent minor-league team in California, the Sonoma Stompers, offered them the chance to run its baseball operations according to the most advanced statistics.
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. Even José Canseco makes a cameo appearance.
Will their knowledge of numbers help Lindbergh and Miller bring the Stompers a championship, or will they fall on their faces? Will the team have a competitive advantage or is the sport's folk wisdom true after all? Will the players attract the attention of big-league scouts, or are they on a fast track to oblivion?
©2016 Ben Lindbergh and Sam Miller (P)2016 TantorListeners also enjoyed...




















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A must-listen for fans of Effectively Wild
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My favorite baseball book ever.
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Great True Story for Fantasy Baseball Addicts
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Great listen, even for non stat heads
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Fast enjoyable listen for the summer months.
Great listen for baseball fans and non fans alike.
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Any additional comments?
This is a great story about two statheads running a minor league ball club. There's only one small problem.The two narrators and the audio engineers HAVE NEVER WATCHED A BASEBALL GAME IN THEIR LIVES.
On one occasion, they pronounced Vin Scully as Vin SCOLLY. On another, they pronounced Whitey Herzog as WHITNEY Herzog. They're both in the Hall of Fame.It's a great book and a good performance, but the occasional pronunciation snafus take away from the experience.
Narrarators have never watched baseball. Ever!
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What an awesome book
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Introspective analysis of a season
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Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?
I do recommend and have recommended this book to friends and family who have deep interests in baseball. Not only for stat-heads because although this book starts out from that perspective it ends up being about much more than that.Any additional comments?
This book details what happens when baseball analytics and sabermetrics are applied to real live people not just numbers on a spreadsheet. In order for strategies to work, players have to buy in to them, and even when they do the strategies do not always work.It provides perspective of what independent baseball players go through to achieve their dreams. The owner, manager, team, league, town, location, the player's family and alternative career plans all have surprising impacts.
I enjoyed this book not only from a strategy and analytical aspect, but especially from a real world angle. It provided insights into a part of baseball I would otherwise be completely ignorant of, and left me with a new found appreciation for independent baseball leagues.
Something more than numbers
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Ben & Sam Forever!!
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