Not by anyone that understands sabermetrics. I would submit any coach that doesn't have an unlimited budget is looking for undervalued players. So all coaches follow sabermetrics.
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Moneyball
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******, it's like talking to a brick wall. Yes, you are all geniuses who understand the true meaning of "Moneyball". Guess what? Not everyone gets it, and it's used pretty liberally by a lot of people anymore. The writer catered to the lowest common denominator.
But why are some of you so worked up about it?
It matters to me because I know the difference while dumbasses like the author toss it around like it is some cute, colloquial"idea".
This is is like saying all people that go to a centralized place to worship are Christian, Jewish, Muslim because they happen to congregate. Or as I said previously-all coaches without a n unlimited budget are looking for undervalued talent. Does that mean all are sabermetricians?
It would be far more appropriate to say that Kirk finds talent that many others don't and develops it.
Why are you so insistent on defending a bad reference to Coach Kirk?
This. I know it's not a totally accurate comparison. But the basic principle behind Moneyball is applicable to Iowa's style of recruiting; the basic principle is finding value where others fail to see it or feel they can get something better somewhere else, and therefore get that value at dirt-cheap costs because no one else wants what you do. The sabermetrics is simply what the A's/Bill James use to define that value.