Billy Beane

William Lamar "Billy" Beane III ( born March 29, 1962) is a former baseball player and since 1997 General Manager (GM ) of the Oakland Athletics.

Life and career

Beane grew up the son of a naval officer and showed early talent in various sports. As a 18- year-old he decided to use a professional baseball career and was committed in MLB Draft in 1980 by the New York Mets. He hit it out of an athletic scholarship to the prestigious Stanford University, which he later described as a big mistake. For the Mets to Beane could not prevail and switched to the Minnesota Twins, with whom he won the World Series in 1987, but completed the season across only 12 games for the A- team. Even in his last two stations as a player, the Detroit Tigers and the Oakland Athletics, he is not your personal workout success was granted.

Beane became famous for his work as a general manager for the Athletics, where he was at first as a scout and from 1993 worked as Assistant GM. By then revolutionary introduction of Sabermetrics to the player's rating, which is also its predecessor, Sandy Alderson - but to a lesser practical extent - had employed, he designed the team from 2000 to systematically and was able to finance second-rate club for four years in a row lead in the playoffs, where the team but always failed early. These early years are referred to in the U.S. as Moneyball Years. Lucrative job offers larger clubs such as the Boston Red Sox in 2002, he struck out. To date, the club concentrated under Beanes sporting guide on the obligation underrated young talents and regularly exchanges his top players against student athletes from. His current contract runs until 2019.

Reception

The career and achievements Beanes as manager of the Athletics were and are variously emphasized positive reports and newspaper reports. The leading American sports magazine Sports Illustrated led Beane in 2009 in the top ten of the best North American sports manager of the new millennium. As early as 2003 the journalist Michael Lewis wrote about the Moneyball Years a nonfiction book titled Moneyball: The Art of Winning on Unfair Game. This was filmed in 2011. The role of Beane took over Hollywood star Brad Pitt.