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carson williams. remember the name.

Biggest Bum in the history of Colorado sports. At least Russ was a decent teammate despite being a terrible contract.

A .500 team despite giving up 50 more runs than it has scored.

Mark Madden, the Super A-Hole, wrote a good piece on how bad Nutting is. He even said the entire coaching staff needs to be shown the door.

Almost July now.. and the Royals are still chugging along!

This aged poorly but honestly I’ll admit I had some doubts myself when the trade happened. Very happy it panned out

People completely misunderstand the concept of money ball. Its about finding market inefficiencies. If no one is valuing OBP? Go sign a ton of those guys cheap. If the pendulum were to swing and no one was signing big power hitters? load up on those. It was about paying as little as possible for a specific skill set, not just about getting on base.

Yermin Mercedes a star? That’s a stretch

this video is aging well

LAD is actually rays system team.Moneyball is not a bad strategy.

Ohhhh Wander

Its so hard being a Marlins fan. At fhe second we have some good propspects or future hall of famers with brughr future. Eveyone is gone the following year 😢

High sell low buy is a very good strategy in business.

This aged like milk

Tantalizing glimpse into the parallel reality where we didn’t get stuck with Bryan Bello :/

Moneyball isn’t about statistics or being cheap. It’s identifying market inefficiencies using data - whether it’s statistic or otherwise - to discover it in order to operate more efficiently. For the A’s it was OBP. The white Sox teams in the mid 2000s prioritized durable pitching to put perform their projections consistently. The Giants cornered the market on defensive metrics. And while they are a small market team on the surface, the Rays are not a small market office or player development system - they’re the best in the league; which when you think about it - is a pretty traditional approach. People go so far out of their way to get mad at baseball teams for trying to innovate it’s so weird and dumb.

I’d like to cordially invite you to view the highlights of any of our recent games, and then I’ll ask you politely if you are indeed ready to eat your words yet.

high quality video you def deserve more subs

As they’re currently .500 lol

Stronly competitive every season in the lower tier of payrolls. They are the envy of the league outside of NY and LA.

Hard to break it to you man but every team is driven by analytics to some degree, a lot of it comes down to spending money rather than being mathematically driven

Blaming their "moneyball" strategy seems silly when you can outline 3 major factors that are completely unrelated from that. Pitchers will recover, their elite scouting team and pitching development will rebuild them, and Randy will figure it out, or not...

This is bs bro no way you think the rays being barely under .500 means they were ruined

LOL Calling what happened in 2023 a collapse is fucking embarrassing, bro. Won't be watching any more of this dishonest content.

This is so fucking lazy lol. The Rays are a great team and has one of the best rotations in baseball on the IL. Their strategy is still working, even if they're only about .500 for half a season lol. You're welcome for the view.

Red Sox are looking pretty good now with the team Bloom basically built with some additions

1:31 complete cap bro league average 💀

You sound illiterate

What dynasty, no such thing as Astros dynasty

1:27 lol how can the league wide winning % be anything other than .500?

This shows you just don’t understand the rays. They got unlucky, they’re not ruined forever 💀

Horrible take

In your video, It's a little unclear what is the difference between a Moneyball strategy and ownership being unwilling to spend. In Boston, for example, ownership was unwilling to pay market price for key players, so Bloom was backed into a corner and had to make trades without much leverage. An unwillingness to spend on premium talent will eventually ruin any time. You fail to mention that former Rays GM Friedman went to LA and is using a similar strategy as in Tampa, but WITH spending. Thus, they can sign players like Betts. Freeman, Ohtani, while also finding cheap talent through the farm (Buehler, Smith) and Moneyball-style trades and claims (Muncy, Phillips). Unlike in Florida and Boston where GMs were pressured to trade expensive stars, LA keeps them and pays them (usually) Moneyball is a strategy to find value that is overlooked by the larger baseball marketplace, acquiring it at a cheap price, and getting more than your money's worth from it. It is more complex than being constrained financially. Beane used OBP, among other stats, to find unexpected value. Now that it's been 20 years and statistics has evolved, Moneyball will evolve too.

Yeah this ain't it, money ball strategy is going to have the effect of a few bad years while waiting for young players to develop. Wr can see on the red sox that they are finding success when their young guys like Duran and Casas develop. This is a casual surface level take

6:24 I respect analytics, I love the concept and when your team is winning it feels like it really works, but I think the problem is managers/HCs/etc feel like they can either trust analytics or their gut but not both. I think it’s only a matter of time before they merge both though. The ability to recognize when to follow the analytics but also knowing when your pitcher just has “it” that day can win a lot more games than just one or the other

acting like 2019 was the beginning of that core, not 2012

One bad year and there "ruined"

I wouldnt say the redsox got completely destroyed by this. We have several young promising players who have carried us to the record we have rn. The mookie betts trade was rough, but looking at the other trades it made sense at the time. Chris sale could not stay healthy so it made sense why we ditched him even if vaughn grissom doesnt pan out.

Oh boy… this video….so many onesided view points… here is some balance… First… “one of the best to average…” they were one of the best teams to start last season because of their elite pitching a strong offense. The offense has under preformed and the Rays endured injuries to every pitcher last year in their starting line up. This year they started off with no proven LH hitters due injury and their pitchers they are relying on were unproven or under performing lathe while waiting on their injured pitchers to come back. Yet again they offered contracts to free agents who opted to go elsewhere where. Second. The Rays are not doing moneyball. You have outlined yourself. In ‘09 they came out the with the book called “the extra 2%, “ which is a different approach. It’s like comparing the Adkins Diet (popular in the turn of the century) to Keto diet. Yes, they both involve food, but they are different. The rays relate on roster manipulation meaning they they have treat a 26 man roster like 35. Also, the Rays have been doing this since 2006, it just became more recognized since 2008… or per your video… 2018. Third- The rays trade players at their peak value and only if they get prime value that blows them away. They have shown tendency to hold on to players like Carl Crawford, BJ Upton, JP Howell, Grant Balfour, without getting anything back. Yes, they have learned from that. There have been only three nightmare trades where they traded a guy for nothing (see Nelson Cruz/ Joe Ryan, see Jake Ordorizzi, and See Cory Dickerson). Typically, they don’t want trade their guys but if a great deal comes across (because the Rays havent had a to 5 pick since 2017. Fourth- the rays have been to the World Series twice during their extra 2% era. Not just 2020. Fifth- Blake snell. Throughout the entirety of the ‘20 yet again struggled to get through the lineup a third time and was heavily guarded. Also, cash did the same thing to Charlie Morton in the ALCS. No one talks about Morton because the Rays won. Also, they played a more rested and comfortable dodgers team who hadn’t had to relocate states and go through COVID protocol when going from Cali to Texas. Why? The Dodgers had the slightly better record all the while struggling against .500 teams that year. Additionally, per the umpire auditor Twitter account, the dodgers benefitted from 46 bad calls where the rays benefitted from 24. Back to Snell. Had Anderson gotten then batters out, as he had … it’s a non issue. Anderson failed, the Dodgers won. Cash is the scapegoat for making the right call. Had he left Snell in and he got blown up, they would wonder why cash left Snell in even though he never did during the regular season or… even though he did not do that for Morton days prior. Remember Cash has won manager of the year for a reason. Six- Snell was traded for four players. Morton opted to sign with Atlanta after the rays didn’t use their extension. Seven- the rays have gone for top talent and have been finalists for top talent like Freddie Freeman. Often forgotten. Eight- the expectations are always low. Almost every year the rays are locked low to last. Nine- Snell won the Cy Young after struggling in San Diego. Ten- Glasnow is often injured and he was moved on because of this. The Rays are not in last place, they are picking up. Eleven- the process is not failing. The Rays prospects are coming around, started slow. This video may not age well. One-sided and low hanging fruit. “Finally be coming to an end,” sounds a little bitter. I would love to debate you if you want.

You understand MLB controls the outcome of games and the league is run by democrats? democrats that HATE Florida. Everything from the players they sign and trade to starting lineups to pitching changes. Ask yourself why the Rays would EVER trade a healthy Tyler Glasnow? Maybe because the league forced them in an attempt to erase the memory of Trevor Bauer on the Dodgers? As long as democrats control the league the Rays or the Marlins for that matter will get over. Do you remember 2020? Dodgers- California (Strict Masking) V. Florida (No Masking)? Lakers (Strict Masking) V. Miami (No Masking) in NBA? Yep. That's right.

Fans spend owners 'money faster than owners' wives. Four months on and its been a great season, not to mention the injuries we've had to overcome

"The League's .511 Winning Percentage". Were there games where both teams won?!

Season isnt over and they're ruined?! One bad year means their strategy doesnt work? Spending $$$ doesnt guarantee a championship.

bro really just said the mlb's average winning percentage over a 3 year stretch wasn't .500 when that's literally impossible in a sport without ties

Trash video and I didn’t even watch

Please keep doing this until we keep winning

Man the rays are going to get 90+ wins and be right in that 6th spot

I think you meant to out the Rays # in the description and not the Astros

How is the league average winning percentage over .500 💀