On the advice of a family friend, Billy’s parents invested on their son’s behalf his entire $125,000 bonus in a real estate partnership that promptly went bust. One day Billy Beane could have been anything, the next he was just another minor league baseball player and not even a rich one.
Lewis expounds, “Just like that, a life changed. Deficiency of the aptitudes diminishes the prospects of being drafted into the leagues. The prerequisites segregate the budding, impressive players from the untalented ones. There were five tools: the abilities to run, throw, field, hit and hit with power.” For one to be enlisted by the scouts, he should validate his prowess in the talents delineated above. “Tools” is what they called the talents they were checking for in a kid. The scouts actually carried around checklists. When big league scouts road-tested a group of elite amateur prospects, food speed was the first item they checked off their lists. Lewis expounds, “THE FIRST THING they always did was run you.
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