Knuckle Curve » management_techniques http://www.everyjoe.com/knucklecurve Major League Baseball News from Spring Training to the World Series Fri, 18 Dec 2009 20:16:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Angus Interviews Alderson http://www.everyjoe.com/knucklecurve/angus-interviews-alderson/ http://www.everyjoe.com/knucklecurve/angus-interviews-alderson/#comments Sat, 15 Sep 2007 19:47:30 +0000 Geoff Young http://www.knucklecurve.com/angus-interviews-alderson/ Post from: Knuckle Curve

]]> Jeff Angus at Management by Baseball has written a couple of informative articles on San Diego Padres CEO Sandy Alderson. The discussion centers around Alderson’s management techniques and includes interviews with the man himself.

I love this riff on Michael Lewis’ Moneyball (aff link):

The revelations in Moneyball actually helped the A’s competitiveness. That’s because when other team owners read the book, many leaned on their own front offices to emulate the deeds (managing walks) but not the intent (finding an undervalued approach and optimizing against it temporarily) of what Oakland had done. And managing walks lost its special value because so many teams pursuing that kind of talent forced the price of it up.

People still get this wrong all the time, and I can’t figure out why…

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