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Winning Fixes Everything - How Baseball's Brightest Minds Created Sports' Biggest Mess (Hardcover)
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Winning Fixes Everything - How Baseball's Brightest Minds Created Sports' Biggest Mess (Hardcover)
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The reporter who broke the Houston Astros' cheating scandal offers
an in-depth exploration of the team and Major League Baseball to
uncover how a heralded organization could become so dishonest. As
Moneyball-thinking and Ivy League graduates took over Major League
Baseball, one franchise set out to create a new blueprint, to build
a cost-efficient winning machine on the principles of the outside
business world. In less than a decade, the Houston Astros both
revolutionized the game and created a culture that led to one of
the worst cheating scandals in baseball history, a Shakespearean
tragedy of innovation and change management. Through years of
extensive interviews, former Astros beat writer Evan Drellich
delivers the definitive account of baseball's most controversial
franchise, an in-depth dissection of the way a modern baseball team
truly works, from ownership down to the clubhouse--without the
usual myth spinning. Drellich shows the rise and fall of the Astros
to be a collision of subcultures. The team's top boss was a former
McKinsey consultant who lived on the bleeding edge with no
guardrails. Baseball players themselves have long sought every
possible advantage, but baseball's commissioner seemed to forget
that fact, despite his experience with the sport's infamous
performance-enhancing drug scandals. All of it came at a cost to
fans, employees and the sport on a whole. But as Winning Fixes
Everything makes clear, "The Astros Way" isn't going anywhere.
Drellich uses the saga of the Astros' scandal to detail the
evolution of baseball itself, and the way business is conducted
inside the game today.
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