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Uh Oh. Ben better not see this video.
I’m not going to watch this, but I can guarantee you as a lifelong A’s fan, this movie had nothing to do with their current situation.
1) Cheap owner (thus not being able to acquire/retain Star talent)
2) Worst ballpark in sports.
3) Home city that won’t help them rectify #2
4) Sharing a territory with a team that doesn’t have the above problems.
5) The league caught up with the analytics 20 years ago, and the rest had the resources to surpass them.
I’ll presume the notion of the video is that the movie brought the analytics to light, which of course is 100% untrue, it was being implemented throughout the league by 2003-2004, though the book it was inspired could bear some responsibility.
Speaking as an A’s fan: I doubt the movie’s success had anything to do with the A’s current dilemmas. Between baseball’s long-standing money gap problems that inspired the system, the A’s have been embroiled in an insane drama to get a replacement for their aging, poorly-located stadium. Oakland’s two other teams, the Raiders and Warriors, left for a reason in recent years. Oh, and the MLB is so dysfunctional that this last season was at risk of being cancelled.
That’s the short of it. At most, the success of moneyball for the A’s caught the attention of teams like Boston and Tampa, who implemented it to even greater success, but minus the last couple years, the A’s were still among the best at it. Also, if the Pirates can continue surviving as a team, anyone can.
If anything hurt them it was the book, not the movie. When Michael Lewis was doing the book he asked Billy Beane if he was worried about other GMs copying his strategies.
Beane told him that baseball GMs didn’t read business books — which was valid at the time — but team owners like John Henry did.
Bad take, I want those 17 minutes back. Beane started using the strategy in 2002. The book came out in 2003. The movie was released in 2011. Anyone in the business likely got the idea far earlier than watching the movie.