May
1
7:00pm
Ben Lindbergh and Travis Sawchik discuss New York Times bestseller, THE MVP MACHINE
By Hachette Book Group
The New York Times-bestselling account of Major League Baseball's high-tech quest to build better players.
As bestselling authors Ben Lindbergh and Travis Sawchik reveal in The MVP Machine, the Moneyball era is over. Fifteen years after Michael Lewis brought the Oakland Athletics' groundbreaking team-building strategies to light, every front office takes a data-driven approach to evaluating players, and the league's smarter teams no longer have a huge advantage in valuing past performance. Instead of out-drafting, out-signing, and out-trading their rivals, baseball's best minds have turned to out-developing opponents, gaining greater edges than ever by perfecting prospects and eking extra runs out of older athletes who were once written off. Lindbergh and Sawchik take us inside the transformation of former fringe hitters into home-run kings and washed-up pitchers into aces. Demonstrating how coaching and scouting are being turned upside down, The MVP Machine charts the future of a sport and offers a lesson that goes beyond baseball. Success stems not from focusing on finished products, they argue, but from making the most of untapped potential.
Now with a new epilogue bringing the book up to date through the 2019 season, The MVP Machine transforms our understanding baseball, teaching, and talent.
Ben Lindbergh is a staff writer for The Ringer and hosts the Effectively Wild podcast for FanGraphs. The coauthor of New York Times bestseller The Only Rule Is It Has to Work, he lives in New York, NY.
Travis Sawchik is a staff writer for FiveThirtyEight. The author of New York Times bestseller Big Data Baseball, he lives in Bay Village, OH.
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