The Major League Scouting Bureau lists Stanley at five foot seven and 155 pounds, but that’s wildly generous. Span’s name clatters down toward the bottom rungs of the first round, and triggers a mind-numbingly complex chain reaction at the top. The fat scout ambles in. "I told him, ‘think top ten.’ I’m telling you, that guy was so happy when I told him that. You talk about complex situations; they have done a terrific job. (A famous image from that era, published in Harper's Weekly in 1866, shows the Athletic players dressed in uniforms displaying the familiar blackletter "A" on the front.) Its essence: seeking out patient batters with high on-base percentages, and pitchers who throw strikes. Just like that the first $4 million is spent, but at least it is spent on a college player. It counted as one of the happiest days of Billy Beane’s career. Finally Billy says, "They’re taking Swisher." The next five teams, among the most pathetic organizations in pro baseball, select high school players. The draft room, at this moment, has an all-or-nothing feel to it. "What’s up Kenny," Billy says rather than asks. It turned out he thought the guy who had just called him wasn’t Billy Owens, Oakland A’s scout, but a college teammate of his masquerading as Billy O. Sparky has just informed Stanley that the A’s are willing to make him a second-round draft pick—and a genuine big league prospect—on the condition that he agree to sign for $200,000, or about half a million dollars less than every other second-round pick will sign for. He’s one of the older scouts, and like most of the others, he’ll leave the Oakland A’s at the end of the season, and find a team that cares about what he knows. Paul DePodesta stares quietly into his computer screen. No A's player from the Philadelphia era has his number retired by the organization. Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game | Michael Lewis | W. W. Norton & Company | 2003. The list is a pure expression of the new view of amateur players. The Arizona Diamondbacks take yet another high school player with the twenty-seventh pick and the Seattle Mariners take another with the twenty-eighth. The Athletics compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the American League (AL) West division. At first, the word "Athletics" was restored only to the club's logo, underneath the much larger stylized-"A" that had come to represent the team since the early days. Next day I called him back and say, ‘shrink that to five.’ I’m not sure he believed me. He’ll have to tell them that he’s made a deal with the A’s on his own, and that he intends to keep his end of it. He’s been the Oakland A’s guiding light, first as general manager and now as executive vice president, since 1997. No team ever came away with six of their top twenty. What begins as a failure of the imagination ends as a market inefficiency: when you rule out an entire class of people from doing a job simply by their appearance, you are less likely to find the best person for the job. He doesn’t want to risk losing his hitters. And no one had figured out how to make the amateur draft any more than the madness it had always been. By the time he became the general manager of the Oakland A’s, in 1997, Billy Beane had read all twelve of Bill James’s Abstracts. That’s what J.P. has just told Billy. Words written in Moneyball back in 2003, a timeless quote from a timeless book every baseball fan should read: Moneyball. Except when it goes wrong. document.write(update); "I said this is the Oakland A’s speaking to you, and the Oakland A’s do things differently," said Billy O, fresh from the strangest pre-draft chat he’d ever had with an amateur player. [22], Selig addressed the San Jose issue via an online town hall forum held in July 2011, saying, "Well, the latest is, I have a small committee who has really assessed that whole situation, Oakland, San Francisco, and it is complex. Sixteen minutes into the draft Erik Kubota leans into the speakerphone, trying, and nearly succeeding, to sound cool and collected. Scott Boras suddenly wants to represent Jeremy Brown. In baseball, that means you cannot outspend the competition; you won’t outbid them for big-ticket free agents or even realistically expect to keep your own homegrown stars long-term. [32], In 2018, the Athletics and Giants started battling for a "Bay Bridge" Trophy[33] made from steel taken from the old bay bridge which was taken down after a new bridge was opened in 2013. For other uses, see, Baseball team and Major League Baseball franchise in Oakland, California, United States, The A's, The Swingin' A's, The White Elephants, The Elephants, The Green and Gold, Oakland Athletics 2021 spring training roster. Of the six players with retired numbers, five were retired for their play with the Athletics and one, 42, was universally retired by Major League Baseball when they honored the 50th anniversary of Jackie Robinson's breaking the color barrier. The team plays its home games at the Oakland Coliseum. Fielder is the semi-aptly named Prince Fielder, son of Cecil Fielder, who in 1990 hit fifty-one home runs for the Detroit Tigers, and who by the end of his career could hardly waddle around the bases after one of his mammoth shots into the upper deck, much less maneuver himself in front of a ground ball. Think for yourself along rational lines. It was inevitable that, at some point, Billy Beane would be leaving the Oakland A’s. And it’s true he can’t afford anyone else. At the end of the day he actually looked up with a big smile and said, "This is maybe the funnest day I have ever had in baseball." Why he didn't win the Award every year after that is something to debate, but Baseball Almanac believes there is no doubt Beane will someday be enshrined in the National Baseball Hall of Fame as a General Manager (joining Ed Barrow, Larry MacPhail, Branch Rickey, and George Weiss). Feeling greedy. One year later - twelfth lowest payroll, second most wins; the year after that, twelfth lowest again, second most wins again; the year after that, twelfth lowest yet again, first in wins! Billy couldn’t afford auctions. Billy Beane has been a member of the organization since his final year as a player in 1989, and had headed up the front office since 1997. The team later turned professional through 1875, becoming a charter member of the National League in 1876, but were expelled from the N.L. This is now the Billy Beane Show, and it’s not over yet. The San Francisco Giants had the twenty-fifth pick, the only pick between the A’s next two. The Athletics may have done just that the last couple of years, defying all odds to win back-to-back American League West titles. He clicks the button on the speakerphone, and his voice shaking like a man calling in to say he holds the winning Lotto ticket, takes Blanton with the twenty-fourth pick, pauses while the Giants make their pick, then takes McCurdy with the twenty-sixth. His fingerprints are all over the organization, with his model helping to guide the A’s to contending status more often than not. "Anyone who thinks he is aping me, isn’t," said James. He can see what Billy is doing. But then no one has any idea what either the Detroit Tigers or the Milwaukee Brewers, who pick seventh and eigth, intend to do. On November 7, 2006, many media sources announced the Athletics would be leaving Oakland as early as 2010 for a new stadium in Fremont, confirmed the next day by the Fremont City Council. He says it but he can’t quite believe it. The A’s front office has a list, never formally written out, of the twenty players they’d draft in a perfect world. The Athletics have all of the numbers of the Hall-of-Fame players from the Philadelphia Athletics displayed at their stadium, as well as all of the years that the Philadelphia Athletics won World Championships (1910, 1911, 1913, 1929, and 1930). Each member was honored with an unveiling of a painting in their likeness and a bright green jacket. Then it dawns on him: "Blanton’s going to get to us." No one had solved the problem of fielding statistics. The 2003 Michael Lewis book Moneyball chronicles the 2002 Oakland Athletics season, with a specific focus on Billy Beane's economic approach to managing the organization under significant financial constraints. As it does, the Oakland A’s owner, Steve Schott, enters the room, followed shortly by the A’s manager, Art Howe. He’s talking about a ghost. Roster, coaches, and NRIs updated January 18, 2020 Most teams, if they kept a wish list of twenty players, would feel blessed to have snagged three of them. Billy stares at the board. For the Latin character, see, "Philadelphia Athletics" redirects here. In March 2004, after Veterans Stadium was replaced by the new Citizens Bank Park, the Athletics' plaques were relocated to the Philadelphia Athletics Historical Society in Hatboro, Pennsylvania,[41][42][43] and a single plaque listing all of the A's inductees was attached to a statue of Connie Mack that is located across the street from Citizens Bank Park.[44][45]. Beginning in the mid 1980s, the on-field costumed incarnation of the A's elephant mascot went by the name Harry Elephante. When asked which current or former major league player Jeremy Brown reminded him of, Paul stewed for two days, and finally said, "He has no equivalent." Like any good bond trader, he loves making decisions. They gather their famous coaches and players in a television studio and hand them paddles with big numbers on them to wave. The sound of J.P.’s voice initially causes Billy to brighten but whatever he says causes Billy to say, "Fuck! Colorado was now taking Francis. The team's owner and manager for its first 50 years was Connie Mack and Hall of Fame players included Chief Bender, Frank "Home Run" Baker, Jimmie Foxx, and Lefty Grove. Colorado’s bungling of negotiations with their first choice had just screwed that up. He thought himself to be fighting a war against subjective judgments, but he was doing something else, too. "It’d be unbelievable if we could get Fritz too." They won three consecutive World Championships in 1972,1973,1974, led by players including Vida Blue, Catfish Hunter, Reggie Jackson, ace reliever Rollie Fingers, and colorful owner Charlie O. Finley. Just "Thank you very much but I need to call you back." ", "Blanton and Swisher," says Erik. Three pitchers from the wish list (Francis, Brownlie, and Guthrie) go quickly. Swisher has "presence." During the 2000s, the Athletics introduced black as one of their colors. Currently, the team wears home uniforms with "Athletics" spelled out in script writing and road uniforms with "Oakland" spelled out in script writing, with the cap logo consisting of the traditional "A" with "apostrophe-s". I said the Oakland A’s are making a commitment to you. Where what happened yesterday is being preserved today. Swisher has an attitude. Billy’s phone rings. On September 5, 2018, the Athletics held a ceremony to induct seven members into the inaugural class of the team's Hall of Fame. Regardless of road or home games, the batting helmets used are green with gold brim. Thank you,’" says the fat scout, and then laughs. The question of whether college performance translated into a professional career simply hadn’t been answered, at least not publicly. Although official capacity was stated to be 43,662 for baseball, seats were sometimes sold in Mount Davis as well, pushing "real" capacity to the area of 60,000. Since the introduction of interleague play in 1997, the teams have since faced each other during the regular season (with the first games taking place in 2003) but the rivalry has effectively died in the intervening years since the A's left Philadelphia. Yesterday, I called him and said, ‘You got a chance to make six figures and the first number is not going to be a one.’ The boy had to sit down. The A's added three new premium spaces, including The Terrace, Lounge Seats, and the Coppola Theater Boxes, to the Coliseum for the 2019 season. The selections made are, from the A’s point of view, delightfully mad. Khris Davis (outfielder/hitter) has been called “the most consistent hitter in baseball history”[46] with his 2014 to 2018 season averages of .244, .247, .247, .247, and .247. "Fritz," he says. If they don’t, nothing that happens afterward can make life worth living. The series is also occasionally referred to as the "BART Series" for the Bay Area Rapid Transit system that links Oakland to San Francisco. "And would," says Billy O, then shuts his mouth, to achieve perfect immobility. It was also here that he began experimenting with dramatic uniforms to match these bright colors, such as gold sleeveless tops with green undershirts and gold pants. [20] In September 2010, 75 Silicon Valley CEOs drafted and signed a letter to Bud Selig urging a timely approval of the move to San Jose. The Cleveland Indians had agreed to pay the price, and so the Indians would take Guthrie with the twenty-second pick. It was their second consecutive AL West title, as well as the second straight year in which they finished with the best record in all of baseball. The name also vaguely suggested the name of the old minor league Oakland Oaks, which were alternatively called the "Acorns". I'm willing to accept that. 1989 ALCS GM #1 PLAYOFFS TICKET STUB-A'S/BLUE JAYS at the best online prices at eBay! ", "Hey," says Sparky, brightly, to Billy O, "your guy could eat my guy for dinner.". In 2001 the agent had squeezed a package worth $9.5 million out of Texas Rangers owner Tom Hicks for a college third baseman named Mark Teixeira. "That boy told me he’d be happy to go in the first nineteen rounds," says Billy O. The home cap is green with a gold bill and white lettering, while the road cap, debuting in 2014, is all green with "A's" in white with gold trim. he asks, teasingly. He’s too excited. Director of Scouting. But we'll make a decision that's based on logic and reason at the proper time. Erik takes Fritz with the thirtieth. Eric Kubota is in his 33rd season with the Athletics organization and his 16th as director of scouting. Soon after retiring, Beane became an understudy to then-A’s general manager Sandy Alderson before finally taking the reins as GM himself in 1997. It was possible he’d only get one of the players on the wish list. He’s got Swisher in the bag: who else can he get? [29], The Bay Bridge Series is the name of a series games played between (and the rivalry of) the A's and San Francisco Giants of the National League. He somehow conveys the idea of a smile without moving a muscle. After New York Giants manager John McGraw told reporters that Philadelphia manufacturer Benjamin Shibe, who owned the controlling interest in the new team, had a "white elephant on his hands", team manager Connie Mack defiantly adopted the white elephant as the team mascot, and presented McGraw with a stuffed toy elephant at the start of the 1905 World Series. 5 questions facing A's heading into 2021 Then Phillips says something new, that causes Billy’s mood to shift. All these terribly subjective statements about Swisher keep popping out of his mouth anyway. Billy moves back and forth between his wish list and Paul and Erik. Everyone in the room, even the people in the back who have no real idea what is going on, a group that includes both the manager and the owner of the Oakland A’s, claps and cheers. Benjamin Fritz, right-handed pitcher from Fresno State. He looks at the board and recalculates what the GMs with the next five picks will do. He was a bond trader, who had made a killing in the morning and entered the afternoon free of fear. The bucolic view of the Oakland foothills that baseball spectators enjoyed was replaced with a jarring view of an outfield grandstand contemptuously referred to as "Mount Davis" after Raiders' owner Al Davis. His biographical data, year-by-year hitting stats, fielding stats, pitching stats (where applicable), career totals, uniform numbers, salary data and miscellaneous items-of-interest are presented by Baseball Almanac on this comprehensive Billy Beane baseball stats page. The 1989 Oakland Athletics season saw the A's finish in first place in the American League West division, with a record of 99 wins and 63 losses, seven games in front of the Kansas City Royals. Today, March 29, is Billy Beane’s birthday. He had $9.5 million to spend and Boras had let it be known that whichever team drafted Jeremy Guthrie was going to cough up a package worth $20 million—or Guthrie would return to Stanford for his senior year. At dawn the room seemed more glaringly impersonal than usual; its cinder-block walls were the bright white of an asylum cell. Other teams will assume that Billy Beane is interested in all these oddballs because he can’t afford normal players, and Billy encourages the view. - Sportswriter Casey Tefertiller (Baseball America, Executive of the Year: Oakland's Billy Beane, 12/03/2013), Billy Beane Autograph on a 1987 Fleer Baseball Card (#535 | Checklist), Billy Beane Miscellaneous Items of Interest. Louisiana Superdome officials pursued negotiations with Athletics officials during the 1978–79 baseball offseason about moving the Athletics to the Superdome in New Orleans. ("Redraft" means he has been drafted before.) "Billy O looks like a Jamaican drug lord, doesn’t he?" Copyright 1999- That left Francis, free and clear to fall to the Mets with the fifteenth pick. Colamarino, like Jeremy Brown, does not look the way a young baseball player is meant to look. The inside section features a stage and video wall for interactive events, a digital experience that lets youngsters race their favorite A's players, replica A's dugouts, a simulated hitting and pitching machine, foosball, and a photo booth. Young men who failed the first test of looking good in a uniform. "He thought it was a crank call," says Billy O. No one is thinking about the twenty-fourth pick of the draft, however. Also while in Kansas City, Finley changed the team's colors from their traditional red, white and blue to what he termed "Kelly Green, Wedding Gown White and Fort Knox Gold". Later this season, the A's will add a miniature baseball field and spiderweb play area. The Athletics were unable to break their lease at the Coliseum, and remained in Oakland.[12]. "Yeah," says Billy, glumly. Beane has had a high profile as GM. "There’s no chance Teahen’s gone before 39, right?" 1989 Oakland Athletics Roster The 1989 Oakland Athletics played 162 games during the regular season, won 99 games, lost 63 games, and finished in first position. McCurdy was an ugly-looking fielder with the highest slugging percentage in the country. It was used on both road and home games. 1989 Oakland Athletics Statistics 1988 Season 1990 Season Record: 99-63, Finished 1st in AL_West ( Schedule and Results ) The thirty or so people in the draft room hear one side of Billy’s awkward conversation: "What about Everts, you hear anything on that?" var pfHeaderImgUrl = '';var pfHeaderTagline = '';var pfdisableClickToDel = 0;var pfHideImages = 0;var pfImageDisplayStyle = 'right';var pfDisablePDF = 0;var pfDisableEmail = 0;var pfDisablePrint = 0;var pfCustomCSS = 'https://www.baseball-almanac.com/css/print.css';var pfBtVersion='2';(function(){var js,pf;pf=document.createElement('script');pf.type='text/javascript';pf.src='//cdn.printfriendly.com/printfriendly.js';document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(pf)})(); Did you know Billy Beane, who is best known for being the ridiculously successful General Manager of the Oakland Athletics and the centerpiece of the Michael Lewis book Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game, was a first round draft pick during the 1980 Draft? On TV, Glen Kuiper covers play-by-play, and Ray Fosse typically provides color commentary. Anyone who walked in just then and tried to figure out what was happening would have been totally mystified. The A's Stomping Ground transformed part of the Eastside Club and the area near the right field flag poles into a fun and interactive space for kids and families. Pause. Oct 27, 1989, Attendance: 62038, Time of Game: 3:03. What James couldn’t understand was why baseball teams refused to acknowledge that fact. Here in the asylum cell Swisher already feels owned. Billy’s only question for the coaches was whether a male brassiere should be called a "manzier" or a "bro.". He had been a part of the organization, first as a player, and later in the front office, since 1989. That part of him dies the moment he hears his name called. In 2009, the City of San Jose attempted to open negotiations with the team regarding a move to the city. Until 1954, when the uniforms had "Athletics" spelled out in script across the front, the team's name never appeared on either home or road uniforms. University of Alabama. Billy’s so excited he doesn’t even bother to say how foolish it is to take a high school pitcher with a first-round pick. Billy likes him too. Phillips tells him that the Montreal Expos are taking Everts. Beane employed his approach to assemble run-producing hitters such as Jason Giambi and a wise-beyond-its-rotation of Mark Mulder, Tim Hudson and Barry Zito. James hadn’t worried too much about the amateur draft—probably because the players’ statistics, before the Internet came along, weren’t available to him to analyze. Swisher is the same character as the one that had revealed Billy’s shortcomings to himself—made it clear to him that he was never going to be the success everyone said he was born to be. 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