[...] Three years later a top executive for those same San Diego Padres would say that the reason the Oakland A’s win so many games with so little money is that “Billy [Beane, the general manager] got lucky with those pitchers.”
And he did. But if an explanation is where the mind comes to rest, the mind that stopped at “lucky” when it sought to explain the Oakland A’s recent pitching success bordered on narcoleptic.
Michael Lewis, Moneyball, Chapter Ten, “Anatomy of an Undervalued Pitcher”.
Michael Lewis, Moneyball, Chapter Ten, “Anatomy of an Undervalued Pitcher”.