In 2003, Moneyball hit the shelves and caused a revolution in baseball thinking. Not necessarily in what it said, because there wasn't much very new there. Baseball Prospectus had been around seven years by that time and Bill James was writing his abstracts over 20 years prior. What did seem to change, though, was the discussion of baseball. Sabermetrics made it into the mainstream, not just the corner of the party where the slightly obsessed hung out. OBP and WHIP are now mainstay acronyms, even showing up on ballpark scoreboards. Inroads continue to be made.
C70 At The Bat
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