2000 World Series

The novel Moneyball by Michael Lewis is about Billy Beane and his reinvented way of making a winning team. Set in the early 2000’s, Beane uses unique thinking to make the Oakland Athletics a successful team. Back in the 1980’s, Beane was the star of his high school baseball team, and it looked like he was going to be a star. At least that is what the scouts thought. He struggled when he got to the minor leagues, but still made it to the majors. There, he was never a stand out and only played a small

former number 1 pick, there ace Stephen Strasburg after he reached the 160 innings pitch mark no matter where they were in the postseason race, they were shutting him down for the remainder of the season. This created controversy around the sports world for the whole year of 2012 and is still being talked about on sports talk shows today. The nationals finished the regular season with the best record in the major leagues and a lot of that success was because of #37. He carried the pitching staff all

The Red Sox won the American League Division Series (ALDS), or the first round of the playoffs, but lost in the American League Championship Series (ALCS), a round away from the World Series. At the end of the 2000 season, Pedro played a part in the Red Sox signing fellow Dominican-born Manny Ramirez from the Cleveland Indians, increasing the team’s likelihood of making a playoff

second-place Philadelphia Athletics, went on to win World Series title”(Burns). As a team they “batted .307, scored almost 1,000 runs, and smashed 158 home runs in a 154-game season on their way to 110 wins”(Burns). One of the great players that made the team so good

October 14th, 2016 was an exciting day for baseball fans in Toronto, Ontario. The Toronto Blue Jays and the city prepared to face off against Cleveland in the American League Championship Series. Catch anything out of sorts about that last sentence (specifically relating to the teams)? Read it one more time. The full name of the team the Cleveland Indians was purposefully left out. Selective vocabulary like this is also used by the Blue Jay’s play-by-play announcer Jerry Howarth. Howarth’s protest

There have been many famous figures that have made a significant impact in the sport industry. One person, who was hired in 2002 at the age of 28, is one of those people. Theo Epstein has made monumental waves in the sport industry since he became the general manager of the Boston Red Sox in 2002. Since then, Epstein has gone on to revolutionize baseball in hiring young, educated, talented minds with knowledge and understanding of sabermetrics to lead their organizations. Epstein was one of the first

description at first look may seem to be describing a championship sporting event such as the NBA Finals, the World Series, Stanley Cup Finals or even the World Cup Final. However, none of these events are what is being depicted. What is actually being illustrated is the finals for numerous Esports competitions such as the League of Legends World Championship or the StarCraft World Championship Series. Ever since the first invention of video games, there has always been a stigma that came with being a gamer

June 15, 2011 David Morrisson Descriptive Statistics Paper Major League Baseball is known as America’s favorite pastime, and MLB teams spend an extensive amount of money in the excess of a billion dollars with the ultimate goal to win the World Series. This learning team’s focus throughout this descriptive statistics paper is the MLB players’ performances, salaries, salary caps, and winning percentages. Though salaries will by no means be a trade for wins, the goal is to use the less experienced

the championship series, which is also more than any other team? Is it a coincidence that the two highest payrolls, the Yanks and Red Sox, have won 40 percent of the World Series championship in this decade? Is it also a coincidence that the Philadelphia Phillies have the fourth highest payroll, and have been in the last two championships before 2010, and the only team to perform in successive championship series during the past decade except – what a shock – the Yankees (2000-2001)? I think not

The Yankees have struggled for many years, despite winning 27 championships. After the Babe Ruths, Joe Dimmagios and Mickey Mantles, CBS purchased 80% of the Yankees fresh off their 1964 World Series appearance. So much so that the Yankees wouldn't make an appearance again until 1976. It was until the late and great George Steinnbrenner purchased the team with a group of investors from CBS and ultimately buying most of the team out. The “Boss”