The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books

Review of”Astroball”

Since the baseball season heads into the All-Star fracture, the ideal way to receive my baseball fix would be to read baseball books. I started with their approach that required world champions them and this book on the Houston Astros. This is my review of”Astroball”
Title/Author:
“Astroball: The New Way to Win it All” by Ben Reiter
Tags:
Baseball, professional Astros, figures Publish date:
2018, july 10 Length:
272 pages
Rating:
5 of 5 stars (outstanding)
Inspection:
Baseball is well to a new era in which statistical data is analyzed and used for just about any decision a group makes, from which players to draft to in which to put those gamers on the diamond when a batter steps into the box. While the concept began in the early 2000’s using”Moneyball”, the groundbreaking book by Michael Lewis about the Oakland Athletics with this plan, the Houston Astros dug even deeper into statistical analysis and their work repaid with a World Series championship in 2017. How they got there is this excellent book by Sports Illustrated writer Ben Reiter’s storyline.
It is very important to be aware that Reiter is a Sports Illustrated writer because he wrote a cover story for the magazine in 2014 predicting the Astros are the 2017 winners. It seemed outlandish at the time as the Astros suffered through their third successive season of over a hundred losses. On the other hand, the brain trust of general manager Scott Luhnow and rocket-scientist-turned-baseball-analyst Sig Mejdal found that their strategy implemented beginning in 2011 was already starting to take shape.

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