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Originally Posted by JayP
Well, the term moneyball doesn't really mean much anymore, but at the time of the book advanced stats and sabermetrics didn't really put much value into defense. Now, as defensive stats are becoming better and better, it's a completely different story.
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Moneyball was about finding value in the market for baseball players.... so it wasn't that defense wasn't important, just that it was overvalued (at the time at least). Same with OBP or closers, moneyball talked about both and it wasn't that the A's thought closers weren't important and OBP was all that mattered, it was just that closers were overvalued and OBP was undervalued. I think a lot of people misunderstand that book, it's really just about finding value to gain a competitive advantage, and that means just as much now as it ever did. It's just harder to do now that every team uses advanced statistics.