Billy beane where is he now

After losing three star players to other franchises, Beane was presented with the problem of needing to replace them despite the fact Oakland had one of the lowest budgets in the MLB and couldn't compete with the likes of the Red Sox.

Instead of building a team around stars, he used detailed math and statistics that favored runs and getting on base to build a cheap team that would be successful in the aggregate. It was a controversial and hated method at the time, but after the A's became the first team to ever win twenty consecutive games and had an overall great season, it was adopted by managers and teams throughout the league. Almost ten years later Moneyball was released to critical and commercial success.

It's now been almost another decade, so what's happened to Beane in that time? Like Brad Pitt was in the film, Beane was offered a spot as the general manager of the Boston Red Sox, but declined and stayed with Oakland. But does it really matter? Who cares who the GM is if there is no directive from ownership to actually compete?

Bob Melvin says Jake Diekman is the likely candidate to close if Hendriks is gone, though they could choose to use him earlier in games for high-leverage situations.

Also mentioned Lou Trivino as an option. So it sounds like we can say for sure that the plan is for Puk to be a pitcher of some sort, likely a left-handed one.

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The Mets have just three winning seasons in the past 13 years. Beane and Melvin have seven since despite operating with a bottom-5 payroll year in and year out. Bringing this duo in would be a great start by Cohen in his second-year as team owner. But, the Mets would have to trade for Melvin and it is unclear what Oakland would want in return. For now, it's at least a promising sign that Beane sounds intrigued by the Mets' vacancy, and if New York can land him, It'd be a home run hire.