It's the ultimate in fantasy baseball: You get to pick the roster,
set the lineup, and decide on strategies - with real players, in a
real ballpark, playing in real time. That's what Ben Lindbergh and
Sam Millergotto do when the Sonoma Stompers, an independent minor
league team in California, offered them the chance to run the
team's baseball operations according to the most advanced
statistics. Their story is unlike any other baseball tale you've
ever read. We tag along as Lindbergh and Miller apply their number
crunching insights to all aspects of assembling and running a team,
following one cardinal rule: It has to work. We meet colourful
figures like general manager Theo Fightmaster and boundary breakers
like the first openly gay player in American professional baseball.
Even Jose Canseco makes a cameo appearance. Will their knowledge of
numbers bring the Stompers a championship? Will the team have a
competitive advantage, or is the old folk wisdom really true after
all? Will the players attract the attention of big league scouts or
will this be a fast track to oblivion? It's a wild ride, as the
authors' infectious enthusiasm and feel for the absurd make the
Stompers' story one that will speak to numbers geeks and
traditionalists alike. And in a new afterword, Lindbergh and Miller
pick up the story in a new season to show how the team and its
players continue to break new ground, on and off the field.
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