I'm behind on my shameless self-promotion

Posted By Daniel W. Drezner Monday, April 21, 2008 - 7:03 PM Share

Last week's conference, combined with the start of Passover, has caused me to get behind in the self-promotion department. My latest commentary for Marketplace was last Friday, and discussed the Oakland A's and Billy Beane five years after the publication of Moneyball:

The popularization of sabermetrics has left Beane with less of an advantage -- it's harder to find diamonds in the rough when everyone else is mining the same territory. The A's are not struggling because of "Moneyball"'s failure -- they are struggling because of its success.

Listen to the whole thing.