billy beane

Ex-Yankee disputes his portrayal in 'Moneyball' movie

The movie, based on the Michael Lewis book about former A's general manager Billy Beane, portrayed Justice as a 🐻me-first egotist.

Sandy Alderson: Mets' pursuit of top exec 'wasn't fool's gold'

As it turns out, the Mets’ offseason pursuit of Billy Beane w♒asn’t a ⛎pipe dream, after all.  

Theo Epstein to Billy Eppler: Mets' path to new GM

The Mets and Billy Eppler were finalizing a deal Monday night to m🐽ake him their next general manager, ending a six-week search for the club’s top executive.

Mets' front office search is running out of names

The Mets’ short lis𓃲t for presiden💟t of baseball operations is going to have to grow.

ꦛ Why Mets are back to square one and whe👍re it may lead: Sherman

Steve Cohen is looking at a c🌼hessboard similar to last offseason. His preferred candidates are beyond his reach. He has no president of baseball ops, no GM and no manag⛦er.

Mets' president options dwindling as third big name pulls out

♉ No Theo Epstein. No David Stearns. And now, no Billy Beane 🌠for the Mets.

ꦿYanღkees fans want changes, but how many can they really expect to get?

 Fans aren’t happy with the way this season ended and they want some thiꦍngs to change -- fast. ꦇ

With Theo Epstein out, Mets' remaining options come with hurdles: Sherman

Billy Beane and David Stearns aജre the Mets' top two choices for the president of baseballꦺ operations vacancy.

 W𝕴hat the Mets absolutely cannot afford to do

The 𓂃Mets can’t 🍷afford to get it wrong. Again.

Why Billy Beane is a better fit for Mets than Theꦗo Epstein

ꦇ There’s a belief within the industry that Beane, a longtime California resident, is really open to coming East.

Five potential candidates for Mets' president of baseball operations

 ♍ The Mets are expected to soon begin a search for a president of baseball operations to guide a front office currently led by team president Sandy Alderson. Where will they...

Billy Beane of 'Moneyball' fame could bid farewell to baseball

Billy Bean🅘e’s potential deal to buy🌠 a stake in the company that owns the Boston Red Sox would end his visionary reign at the Oakland Athletics -- and could mark...

First-ever🐼 sports SPAC could target English soccer giant Li🦋verpool

Two US sports moguls just raised more than half a billion dollars — and insiders bet that they’re shopping for a UK soccer team. Last week, prolific sports banker Gerrꩵyဣ...

 The second-half blueprint Mets cওan ride to playoffs

When the Mets play well in the second half, they generally make the playoffs. The Mets have reached the postseason nine times, never producing worse than a .588 winning pe♏rcentage...

Ron Darling's tell-all skewers others, not just Lenny Dykstra

Lenny Dykstra is not the only ex-teammate former Met Ron Darlಞing brushed back in his latest memoir. In “108 Stitches,” w🃏hich the Mets author-announcer co-wrote with Daniel Paisner, Darling sets...

Inside Billy Beane's world, and his complicated Cashman friendship

It’s been 15 years since Michael Lewis’ “Moneyball” revolutionized baseball and became the best-selling book in the sport’s history. You don’t have to remind Billy Beane that he’s the gꦏodfath🥀er...

Red Sox manager? Ron Darling? Outsid༒e-the-box options to save ꦦMets

Earlier this month I recommended Chris Marinak to be hired to run the Mets’ baseball operations department. I believe MLB’s cuꦓrrent executive VP of strateg💃y, technology and innovation possesses a...

Yankees, A's in Sonny Gray stalemate without a guaranteed blink

♑ Executives who know both Brian Cashman and Oakland VP of baseball operations Billy Beane well describe them as executives who will not blink at the deadline if the Sonn♉y Gray... 

T꧟heo Epstein boldly accepts his Cubs moment of truth

Cubs president of baseball o🧸perations Theo Epstein got Aroldis Chapman and a checkmark for honesty. In July 2014, Epstein traded two veteran starters, Jeff Samardzija and Jason Hammel, to Oakland...

🌌 How to strike it rich i💫n baseball without ever playing

First it was a strategy. Then a book. Then a movie. Now🔴 "Moneyball," Michael Lewis' tale of how the payrol൲l-challenged Oakland A's used data to take on the big-spending Yankees,...