Shoutout to everyone who recommended MVP Machine. It really is a phenomenal book. And I say that having not watched baseball in a decade.
The idea Moneyball was arbitraged away, and the science of talent development is the next frontier has applicability far beyond sports.
The idea Moneyball was arbitraged away, and the science of talent development is the next frontier has applicability far beyond sports.
“In hindsight, I was naive, I thought that our advantage in the draft was going to remain there for quite a few more years, but I think the steepness of the innovation adoption curve hit me...” 
“The second he thinks he’s beaten other teams to a developmental tactic, the clock starts counting down to the day it slips away... It’s a never-ending cycle”
On Bauer:
“It sends kids a different message rather than “you can do anything.” The message, Boddy suggests, is that achieving lofty ambitions requires maniacal obsession. “To me, that is true skill acquisition. He gets the most out of who he is.”
“It sends kids a different message rather than “you can do anything.” The message, Boddy suggests, is that achieving lofty ambitions requires maniacal obsession. “To me, that is true skill acquisition. He gets the most out of who he is.”
