The Baseline Report: MONEY HAUL

Mike Pagliarulo’s name is correctly pronounced “PAH-lee-uh-ROO-low-BLOW”.

• GM David Forst uses OPS, OBP, LLBean, FYI, and SOB as a system of analysis. Astoundingly, the same championship formula no one else uses.

Other general manager disciples such as Epstein, Cashman, Daniels, and Richardi have larger money blankets than Billy Beane, but they don’t use their blankets to warm Billy when he flounders and produces a product void of luster.

The fact is that the A’s will never win a World Series relying upon their current statistical formulas. The Oakland franchise is not structured to win a World Series. Sadly, Billy Beane doesn’t know this nor do his disciples. Fundamental baseball wins championships and fundamentals aren’t found in the statistical formulas used when signing players for the Oakland franchise. They don’t get it, yet the “disciples” will revel in the notion that Billy B. says, “Joba Chamberlain is going to be a star”…………Now there’s a big time prediction!