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Keith Law redrafts the 2003 draft with the benefit of hindsight, to see how different it would look.

Story | Conversation | May 17, 2013

In ESPN The Magazine, Peter Keating profiles Eric Van, the former sabermetrician for the Boston Red Sox, and other mathematical minds like him. Although MLB is more inclined toward numbers, the anti-geek culture hasn't changed.

Story | Conversation | May 04, 2013

Billy Beane, the man who has possibly received more credit than any GM ever, looks across the country and doesn't think that his good buddy Brian Cashman receives enough of it. Yes, the Yankees have a payroll that more than doubles Oakland's, but ...

Billy "Moneyball" Beane is very fond of Yankees' GM Brian Cashman.

What would baseball be without scouts? Behind every Hall of Famer was someone who first saw his greatness and spread the word. Now fans can explore those stories themselves.

Highlights from the baseball panel at the Sloan Sports Conference.

The hot stove is cooking, so it's time for the delicate process of rating MLB's top 50 most valuable assets.

Post-"Moneyball" sports have become a blizzard of numbers, and every snowflake or at-bat can be discernible as an individual event, but also blinding in the aggregate. This can be discouraging stuff to press box traditionalists.

This is ESPN The Magazine's 2012 Franchise Rankings entry for the Tampa Bay Rays.

Back when the "Moneyball" Oakland A's made the playoffs four consecutive seasons and averaged 97 wins over a five-year span, it may have been sabermetric principles and exploiting market inefficiencies that eventually received acclaim for the team's ...

This is the team they should have made the "Moneyball" movie about. The 2002 Oakland's A's were actually a star-studded team with Barry Zito, Tim Hudson, Mark Mulder, Miguel Tejada, Eric Chavez and Jermaine Dye. But the 2012 A's? Who are these guy...

In ESPN The Magazine, Peter Keating writes that the shift has become more popular than ever and hitters should take after David Ortiz's approach.

Story | Conversation | July 23, 2012

This is the first of a three-part series from ESPN the Magazine's "Pay Dirt." The full feature is available in the current issue of The Mag's Money Issue. It's tough to follow the money in sports, so The Mag commissioned the Wharton School at the ...

Keith Law redrafts the 2002 draft with the benefit of hindsight, to see how different it would look.

Story | Conversation | April 24, 2012

Can 'Moneyball' pull the upset and win Best Picture?

In ESPN The Magazine, Eddie Matz writes about Brandon McCarthy, who was almost out of baseball in 2010 until he reinvented himself by writing Moneyball's next chapter. Now he's one of the game's best pitchers.