Billy Beane
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William Lamar Beane III, Jr., (born March 29, 1962), is a former professional baseball player and current front office executive.
He is the executive vice president of baseball operations and minority owner of the Oakland Athletics of Major League Baseball (MLB); he also is the majority owner of Barnsley FC of EFL Championship.
He appeared in MLB from 1984 to 1989 as an outfielder for the New York Mets, Minnesota Twins, Detroit Tigers, and Oakland Athletics.
He joined the Athletics as a scout in 1990 and was promoted to executive vice president after the 2015 season. Beane, the Mets' first-round pick, failed to live up to scouts' hopes by naming him as a celebrity.
Beane has brought statistical analysis (known as sabermetrics) to baseball, allowing teams to rethink how they evaluate players.
He is the subject of Michael Lewis' 2003 book on baseball economics, Moneyball, which was turned into a 2011 film starring Brad Pitt as Beane.
Early life
Beane grew up in Mayport, Florida, and San Diego, California, the child of a military family working in Mayport. His father, a naval officer, taught him how to pitch.
Beane was at Mt. Carmel High School in San Diego, where he excelled at baseball, football, and basketball. Beane was welcomed to the varsity baseball team for the last game of his freshman season. Beane batted.501 in his sophomore and junior years of high school. His batting average dropped to.300 in his senior year.
Despite the decrease in batting average, scouts were enamored with Beane's talent. Beane canceled football in order to prevent a foot injury that could have spelled him out of his baseball career. Despite all this, Stanford University attempted to recruit Beane on a joint baseball–football scholarship as the quarterback who would replace then-sophomore John Elway for the Stanford Cardinals.
Personal life
Beane's first marriage was to Cathy Sturdivant. Casey Beane is the couple's daughter.
Beane is married to Tara Beane. Brayden Beane and Tinsley Beane are twins of the couple.
Beane played for San Diego in the baseball off-seasons of his playing career.
Baseball career
Beane's talent was praised by the New York Mets, who had the first overall pick of the 1980 Major League Baseball Draft, and they considered selecting him with the first pick. Beane's declined to the 23rd pick, not signed by a professional team, allowing them to doubt Beane's decision not to sign. Beane decided to sign with the Mets for a US$125,000 (equivalent to $411,097 in 2021) signing bonus after visiting the Mets clubhouse. Beane cited his decision to sign with the Mets instead of going to Stanford as the "only decision he will make in his life about money."
Believing Beane is expected to be a more versatile player than their top first-round pick, Darryl Strawberry, while Beane is assigned to the Little Falls Mets of the Class A New York–Penn League, with players drafted out of college. Beane had a rough start in his first season, batting.210. When playing harder, he was unable to make the changes that were required. Beane was promoted by the Mets to the Lynchburg Mets of the Class A-Advanced Carolina League in 1981. In 1982, he was promoted to the Jackson Mets of the Class AA Texas League, after a solid season. Beane batted.220, making Strawberry the league's most valuable player. Beane began questioning himself, while Lenny Dykstra, his new roommate, gained unwavering optimism and a strong mental focus.
Beane played in five games for the 1984 New York Mets before his first promotion to MLB in 1984. Beane played for eight games with the Tidewater Tides of the Class AAA International League in 1985. In 1985, he batted.284 for the Tides, leading the team with 19 home runs and 77 runs batted in. Beane, Joe Klink and Bill Latham of the Minnesota Twins was traded by the Mets to the Minnesota Twins for Tim Teufel and Pat Crosby, a minor league player, following the season.
The Twins were scheduled to give Beane the job as their starting left fielder over incumbent Mickey Hatcher, but the Twins were plagued with injuries and inefficiency. Beane played in 80 games for the 1986 Minnesota Twins, batting.216. He has also played in 32 games for the Toledo Mud Hens of the International League. Since spring training in 1987, the Twins sent Beane to their new Class-AAA affiliate, the Portland Beavers of the Pacific Coast League (PCL). After batting.285 for Portland, Beane, was given a call-up to the Twins as a result of the September 1 roster expansion. He appeared in 12 games with the 1987 Minnesota Twins.
During spring training in 1988, Beane was traded to the Detroit Tigers for Balvino Gálvez. He was on the Tigers' opening-day roster as an injury substitute and was sent to Toledo in late April, where he now serves as Detroit's Class-AAA affiliate, where he spent the majority of the season. During this period, he played in the same outfield as another player with nearly the same name, Billy Bean, as well as a Rice teammate. Beane appeared in six games for the 1988 Tigers. Beane joined the Oakland Athletics in 1988 and played in 37 games with the 1989 Athletics, batting.241 in 79 at-bats. Beane was with the PCL's Class-AAA Tacoma Tigers for the majority of the season. He re-signed with the Athletics for the 1990 season and was sent down to the minor leagues at the start of spring training.
Beane, a young baseball player, approached Athletics GM Sandy Alderson a day after being recalled to minor league camp in April 1990 for a position as an advance scout. Beane served as assistant GM of the Athletics from 1993 to 1995, when he was promoted to assistant GM of the Athletics and charged with scouting minor-league players.
The Athletics made their highest payroll in baseball in 1991 under Walter A. Haas Jr.'s ownership. Haas died in 1995, and Alderson, the current owners, and Ken Hofmann, ordered him to slash payroll. Alderson, the only player on a limited budget, began focusing on sabermetric principles to find undervalued players. He rated on-base percentage among hitters. Beane learned value from Alderson's experience in using sabermetrics in a way that other teams didn't have.
On October 17, 1997, Beane took over Alderson as the GM. Alderson's creation of the Athletics into one of baseball's most cost-effective teams continued. For example, the Athletics finished 24th out of 30 major league teams in player salaries in 2006, but had the 5th best regular-season record.
The Athletics have been in the playoffs for four years in a row from 2000 to 2003, losing in the American League Division Series each year. The Athletics became the first team in the 100+ years of American League baseball to win 20 games in a row. They won their first playoff series under Beane in 2006, but the Detroit Tigers took them out of the American League Division Series in the American League Championship Series.
Beane made Beane an offer of $12.5 million to become their GM during the 2002 season, but he turned down. Beane's contract was extended to serve with the Athletics as the team's general manager until 2012, according to current Beane, who was granted a small portion of the team's ownership. Beane's deal with the Athletics went into 2019 in February 2012.
The Athletics did not make the playoffs or finish higher than.500, which caused a lot of mockery of Beane and his style in some quarters, particularly in 2009. Beane's general dismissal of his approach, implying that his entire philosophy revolves around research and analysis. Many other general managers have followed Beane's model and now use similar tactics.
Moneyball has changed how players are valued, and Beane has begun focusing on high school athletes, a group he had previously dismissed in the MLB draft, considering that they are often undervalued. He and other like-minded GMs modified their draft plans to honed in the years immediately after the Moneyball revolution. The Athletics lost to.500 and then missed the playoffs, but they led MLB in defensive efficiency, judging by the number of balls put into play by opponents that resulted in outs and allowed the fewest runs in the AL. The Athletics made the playoffs again under Beane in 2012, winning the American League West championship on the last day of the regular season. The Athletics returned to the playoffs in 2013 by winning the American League West division championship for the first time since the 2002 and 2003 seasons.
Beane #10 appeared on the Top ten GMs/Executives of the Decade in all sports in December 2009.
Beane had been promoted to executive vice president of baseball operations on October 5, 2015, according to the Athletics. David Forst, the assistant, took over the role as general manager of a company.