Billy Beane Best Quotations

It's best to part ways at this point, ... We were never going to be able to bridge the gap.

How can you not be romantic about baseball?

Is this the best way you can play this?

Trying to build a team over the course of the winter to put on the field is really just half the job. Because if your best players go down, it's not so much him going down as who you replace him with, which ultimately might have the biggest impact on how you end up finishing. So you want to have both a belt and suspenders for support.

The bottom line is that any business should be a meritocracy. The best and brightest. Period.

We're looking for a really solid year out of Esteban. It doesn't have to be his best year as long as it's not his worst. Somewhere in the middle, we'll be happy.