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You know the funny thing about the Moneyball detractors is that they ignore the word "money." In all the talk of on-base percentage and at least partially abandoning the ideas that scouts and old baseball men hold dear, yet are proven to be overly risky, guys like Richard Griffin of the Toronto Star miss the point of the book: teams like Oakland (or Minnesota, San Diego, Pittsburgh, Tampa Bay, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Florida, Washington, Colorado, Toronto, etc.) either cannot or will not spend...

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