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GMs -- at least the smart ones --- have certainly not abandoned sabermetric principles. The Red Sox champions were a terrific sabermetric team. The Yankees have been very sabermetrically sound. The teams best able to take care of what sabermetrics tell us are those who combine smarts with money. Moneyball teams such as the A&quot;s, on the other hand, are perpetually trying to cover up for a lack of funds. There is a sabermetric underpinning to Moneyball --- what are the statistical characteristics that add up to winning ballgames --- but there&quot;s also the added level of "which of those statistical characteristics are undervalued in the marketplace, and which we can afford?" The Yankees and Red Sox are positioned to build the best possible sabermetric team; the A&quot;s are positioned only to build the best team they can afford.