Ever since the advent of Moneyball culture and the parallel rise in popularity of more data-related thinking in professional sports, we’ve been asking about its demise. All the way back in 2008, upon the retirement of Jeremy Brown—a prospect heavily featured in the book, whose ridiculously overdramatized weight was a crutch on which to discuss his undervalued nature as a player—Baseball Prospectus took a blowtorch to some of the mysticism surrounding the Michael Lewis book and its supposed lessons that, by then, were sloppily applied to the rest of modern sports culture.
