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The most storied rivalry in baseball is the
Yankees and the Red Sox, despite what often seems like an annual
exercise in disappointment in New England. Despite having a
comparatively brief and less operatic history of losing to the
Bronx Bombers than do the Sox, the Blue Jays were once the team to
beat in the American League East. Now Boston and Toronto are again
gunning for the top, led by a pair of young general managers. Theo
Epstein of the Red Sox and J. P. Ricciardi of the Blue Jays
represent a new generation of general managers, weaned on two
decades of baseball analysis that started with the groundbreaking
work of Bill James and Pete Palmer. Without the Yankees financial
advantages, both Epstein and Ricciardi contend by carefully
building their organizations and their big-league squads with a
blend of financial good sense, scouting know-how, and the kind of
analysis that helped them reach their positions in the game today.
Indeed, both GMs now have such people as Bill James and Keith Law
(formerly of the Baseball Prospectus) to help them crunch numbers
and take their best shots at beating the Yankees. |
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| ISBN-10: 1574888617 ISBN-13: 9781574888614 |
Hardback - June 2005 |
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