Billy Beane: You have to be crazy in order to be revolutionary

Billy Beane must have been crazy to think that he could attempt to succesfully alter the way baseball recruiting always has been, but what else could he have done. If he were to use the same strategies and same criteria to evaluate players, he would never have legitimate shot at contending as a GM in the big leagues. If he is going to use the same strategy as the teams that have major money, he is going to have the exact same success/failure ratio, and unlike the big money teams he will not be able to pay for his mistakes. It makes perfect sense that he would attempt something to level the playing field and the fact that this strategy actually makes logical sense makes it for sure worth the risk. The key idea here is that there was through this idea he had everything to gain and nothing to lose, because this gave the A's the potential to have a breakthrough no other team would have. The brilliance of it is that even if it fails, the organization won't lose any ground because they were already somewhat at the bottom of the league in many aspects