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“Sweet, funny, and thoroughly original, Rob Neyer’s rendering of an otherwise meaningless game is an incisive and prescriptive analysis of the game’s past, present, and future.” -JANE LEAVY, author of The Big Fella Power Ball brings that forth in vibrant colors.” -JEFF PEARLMAN, author of The Bad Guys Won I’ve always loved Rob Neyer’s passion for the National Pastime. “A smart, original, insightful look at all the nooks, crannies, and nuances that make the game of baseball so beautiful-and so fascinating. “If Marcel Proust had been a 21st century baseball analytics expert…” - New York Journal of Books

“Neyer, in a rare feat, captures the humor and humanity in the game, as well as what makes the revelry and rivalry of baseball so special.” - Library Journal Teams are relying on unorthodox strategies, including using power-losing-purposely tanking a few seasons to get the best players in the draft.Īs he chronicles each inning and the unfolding drama as these two teams continually trade the lead-culminating in a 9-8 Oakland victory in the bottom of the ninth-Neyer considers the players and managers, the front office machinations, the role of sabermetrics, and the current thinking about what it takes to build a great team, to answer the most pressing questions fans have about the sport today. Every batter in the lineup can crack homers and knows their launch angles. Seemingly every pitcher now throws mid-90s heat and studiously compares their mechanics against the ideal. Over the past twenty years, power and analytics have taken over the game, driving carefully calibrated teams like the Astros to victory. Though this was only one regular season game, the match-up of these two teams demonstrated how Major League Baseball has changed since the early days of Athletics general manager Billy Beane and the publication of Michael Lewis’ classic book. On September 8, 2017, the Oakland A’s faced off against the Houston Astros in a game that would signal the passing of the Moneyball mantle. The former ESPN columnist and analytics pioneer dramatically recreates an action-packed 2017 game between the Oakland A’s and eventual World Series Champion Houston Astros to reveal the myriad ways in which Major League Baseball has changed over the last few decades.

“Winner of the 2018 CASEY Award for Best Baseball Book of the Year.”