This is the crowd-pleaser? Indeed it is, and that movie is Moneyball. Here are 20 facts about the film we find interesting, and we don’t care what the scouts say. It’s all in the numbers.

Based on the 2003 best-seller by Michael Lewis, Moneyball came at a fallow time for the baseball movie. The boom of the ’80s and ’90s had run its course, and while the genre still produced an ...

Before the sabermetrics behind Moneyball, baseball experts were focusing on the wrong data and analytics. Scouts and coaches used to concentrate on batting averages and RBIs. Today, they’re ...

Next-gen Moneyball. “We were conscious of it and tried to be deliberate about how we take advantage of the rules as best we we can,” Antonetti said during a gathering this spring of Cactus ...

Brad Pitt’s exact salary for acting in the movie Moneyball is not known, however, we do know it was over $10 million. Pitt also was a producer on the film, which went on to earn six Oscar ...

These Rays, though, well, what they’ve really done is break the system. Michael Lewis’s classic Moneyball, about the early 2000s A’s, launched a baseball revolution, as every team tried ...

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The Chicago Cubs are 4-2 to start the season entering Friday for one simple reason: they're getting on base. The Cubs' offense has fueled their current four-game winning streak. They just ...

“The first one through the door always gets bloodied.” Those are the words of John Henry, owner of the Boston Red Sox, in Moneyball, talking about Billy Beane (Brad Pitt), who revolutionized ...