The MVP Machine: How Baseball's New Nonconformists Are Using Data to Build Better Players by Lindbergh, Ben
The MVP Machine: How Baseball's New Nonconformists Are Using Data to Build Better Players by Lindbergh, Ben

The MVP Machine: How Baseball's New Nonconformists Are Using Data to Build Better Players

Move over, Moneyball -- this New York Times bestseller examines major league baseball's next cutting-edge revolution: the...
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The MVP Machine: How Baseball's New Nonconformists Are Using Data to Build Better Players by Lindbergh, Ben

The MVP Machine: How Baseball's New Nonconformists Are Using Data to Build Better Players

$40.75
The MVP Machine: How Baseball's New Nonconformists Are Using Data to Build Better Players by Lindbergh, Ben

The MVP Machine: How Baseball's New Nonconformists Are Using Data to Build Better Players

$40.75
Author: Ben Lindbergh
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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Move over, Moneyball -- this New York Times bestseller examines major league baseball's next cutting-edge revolution: the high-tech quest to build better players.
As bestselling authors Ben Lindbergh and Travis Sawchik reveal in The MVP Machine, the Moneyball era is over. Fifteen years after Michael Lewis brought the Oakland Athletics' groundbreaking team-building strategies to light, every front office takes a data-driven approach to evaluating players, and the league's smarter teams no longer have a huge advantage in valuing past performance.

Lindbergh and Sawchik's behind-the-scenes reporting reveals:

  • How undersized afterthoughts José Altuve and Mookie Betts became big sluggers and MVPs
  • How polarizing pitcher Trevor Bauer made himself a Cy Young contender
  • How new analytical tools have overturned traditional pitching and hitting techniques
  • How a wave of young talent is making MLB both better than ever and arguably worse to watch

Instead of out-drafting, out-signing, and out-trading their rivals, baseball's best minds have turned to out-developing opponents, gaining greater edges than ever by perfecting prospects and eking extra runs out of older athletes who were once written off. Lindbergh and Sawchik take us inside the transformation of former fringe hitters into home-run kings, show how washed-up pitchers have emerged as aces, and document how coaching and scouting are being turned upside down. The MVP Machine charts the future of a sport and offers a lesson that goes beyond baseball: Success stems not from focusing on finished products, but from making the most of untapped potential.



Author: Ben Lindbergh, Travis Sawchik
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 04/07/2020
Pages: 416
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.40w x 1.20d
ISBN: 9781541698925

About the Author
Ben Lindbergh is a staff writer for The Ringer and hosts the Effectively Wild podcast for FanGraphs. The coauthor of New York Times bestseller The Only Rule Is It Has to Work, he lives in New York, NY.

Travis Sawchik is a staff writer for FiveThirtyEight. The author of New York Times bestseller Big Data Baseball, he lives in Bay Village, OH.
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