spencerfleury 's review for:

The Extra 2%: How Wall Street Strategies Took a Major League Baseball Team from Worst to First by Jonah Keri

4.0

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I've always thought that most of what baseball fans and writers think they know about the game is unsupported, to say the least. This book tells how the Rays jettisoned all that "common knowledge" to build a winning team through canny statistical analysis techniques. It also tells a few ... interesting stories about the Vince Naimoli era that I had never heard before (no team email accounts for front-office employees as late as 2003? Really?). If you liked "Moneyball," or if you like baseball in general, I recommend this.