In the book Moneyball, the author Michael Lewis uses his love of baseball and talent of storytelling to explain the aspects of being a minor league baseball player. In the preface, the author describes the importance of love for a game and the power of money within the realm of baseball leagues. For many people, a first love can be attributed to an activity with your family or something you are taught by your parents. From that love, passion and talent is developed. For the characters in the book, that is the spark of a career that will encompass those attributes. Despite all of those attributes, money is also a determining factor in the major league of baseball. From the preface, it appears that the author will examine the relationship between…show more content… 14) He is now a grown adult in the transition of his career from a player to one of the men in charge of the very process he went through. Beane is now in the phase of his career where he is discussing the risks to be taken on young players to bring to his team in Oakland. While in the room with scouts, the conversation shifts from player to player discussing how they fit the needs of the team. The conversation gets stuck on the player Jeremy Brown. Billy and the scouts banter back in forth arguing how well he fits their criteria of a “baseball player”. Billy seems to be sympathetic to Brown and argue in favor of him when the rest of the scouts seem to doubt him due to his past in both the draft and in the game as well. Unlike the rest of the men in the room, Billy now understood the power of statistics when picking a player. The same statistics that may have torn up his own career was how he intended to make others possible. “Paul’s laptop didn’t have a tiny red bell on top that whirled and whistled whenever a college player’s on-base percentage climbed above .450, but it might as well have.” (Pg. 37) This means that both Paul and Billy understood there was more to a player than the five-point criteria could show them. These statistics could help Billy find a player more appealing over
