Moneyball

When Billy and Paul were sitting in the room with all the scouts and the draft board, 2 weeks prior to the draft, the scouts thought they were nuts for putting these un-heard of guys in some of the top spaces. One of the scouts said Billy was nuts because they couldn't field. Another said they couldn't even catch. Billy didn't care about that. All he cared about was on-base percentage and hitting. He put these guys who had great on-base percentages but terrible fielding, near the top. The scouts tried to talk him out if it. They thought he was absolutely crazy for not paying attention to the guys they think are good. But Billy and Paul knew what they didn't. They even made a catcher, who blew out his arm and hadn't played in a couple years, play first base! When Billy talked to him first about it, he said he couldn't play first base for his life! He didn't even know if his arm could throw well again. When he first tried it out, he couldn't throw at all. He had too hand the ball to the pitcher when he caught it during spring training. But Billy didn't care about fielding or anything, he just cared about hitting and on-base percentage.