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What “Basketball’s Moneyball” should warn us about the future of baseball

Posted on November 29, 2021February 7, 2022 by Andrew Parks

Back in 2006, Houston Rockets owner Leslie Alexander hired Daryl Morey to be Houston’s new general manager (GM). Morey was 33 at the time. He had no playing background. He had earned an MBA from Harvard, as well as an undergraduate degree in computer science from Northwestern University. His only

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