Your goal shouldn’t be to buy players. Your goal should be to buy wins. In order to buy wins, you need to buy runs. It’s about getting things down to one number. Using stats to reread them, we’ll find the value of players that nobody else can see. People are over looked for a variety of biased reasons and perceived flaws. Age, appearance, personality. Bill James and Mathematics cuts straight through that. Billy, of the twenty thousand knowable players for us to consider, I believe that there’s a championship team of twenty five people that we can afford. Because everyone else in baseball undervalues them. Like an island of misfit toys.

(Source: pistachi-o, via replicant)