Bill James

"Well, stealing bases adds some runs but very few, and you lose most of the runs that you gain by having runners caught stealing."

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Source: The Man Behind The 'Moneyball' Sabermetrics. Talk of the Nation with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. September 26, 2011.

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Bill James

Bill James

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Bill James is a baseball writer and statistician known for pioneering sabermetrics, fundamentally changing how the game is analyzed and understood.

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