Moneyball foreign media evaluation
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Peter Brand: It's about getting things down to one number. Using stats to reread them, we'll find the value of players that nobody else can see. People are over looked for a variety of biased reasons and perceived flaws. Age, appearance, personality. Bill James and mathematics cuts straight through that. Billy, of the twenty thousand knowable players for us to consider, I believe that there is a championship team of twenty five people that we can afford. Because everyone else in baseball under values them. Like an island of misfit toys.
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Billy Beane: We got a problem, David?
David Justice: No, it's okay. I know your routine. It's patter, it's for effect. But it's for them, all right? That shit ain't for me.
Billy Beane: Oh, you're special?
David Justice: You're paying me seven million bucks a year, man, so yeah, maybe I am, a little bit.
Billy Beane: No, man, I ain't paying you seven. Yankees are paying half your salary. That's what the New York Yankees think of you. They're paying you three and a half million dollars to play against them.