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Name a Moneyball team that has ever gotten out of the first round of the playoffs.

That would be a "None." Thank you very much.

I&quot;m as big of a geek as anyone, but I loathe Sabermetrics. It has taken everything fun out of baseball. Thankfully, GMs have pretty much abandoned much of its principles. Beane protegee Paul Depodesta was run out of L.A. with a lynch mob behind him. Theo Epstein had the second highest payroll when Boston won the World Series - hardly Moneyball principles. If you can call first round exits and a constant .600 winning percentage a success, then yes, I guess the A&quot;s are a success. However, I would rather win it all every one in a while then to be consistently a C team.

Moneyball rewards un-entertaining, and just plain crappy players, rips apart team chemistry, and builds perenial losers. To Hell with Moneyball and its followers.