20 Facts About Billy Beane

Billy Beane is the executive vice president of baseball operations and minority owner of the Oakland Athletics of Major League Baseball ; he is minority owner of Barnsley FC of the EFL League One in England and AZ Alkmaar of the Eredivisie in the Netherlands.

Billy Beane joined the Athletics' front office as a scout in 1990, was named general manager after the 1997 season, and was promoted to executive vice president after the 2015 season.

Billy Beane is the subject of Michael Lewis's 2003 book on baseball economics, Moneyball, which was made into a 2011 film starring Brad Pitt as Beane.

Billy Beane gave up football to avoid an injury that could prematurely end his baseball career.

Billy Beane was unable to make the adjustments necessary when playing tougher competition.

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Billy Beane began questioning himself, while his new roommate, Lenny Dykstra, succeeded with unwavering confidence and superior mental focus.

Billy Beane remained in Jackson until 1984, when he received his first promotion to MLB, appearing in five games for the 1984 New York Mets.

Billy Beane appeared in 80 games for the 1986 Minnesota Twins, batting.

Billy Beane re-signed with the Athletics for the 1990 season, and was sent down to the minor leagues at the end of spring training.

Weary of the lifestyle of a minor-league player, Billy Beane approached Athletics GM Sandy Alderson a day after he was reassigned to minor league camp in April 1990 for a job as an advance scout.

Billy Beane held that position through 1993, when he was promoted to assistant GM of the Athletics, tasked with scouting minor-league players.

Alderson taught Billy Beane to find value that other teams did not see using sabermetrics.

Billy Beane continued Alderson's crafting of the Athletics into one of the most cost-effective teams in baseball.

Billy Beane largely dismisses criticism of his approach, indicating that his philosophy revolves around research and analysis.

Moneyball has changed how players are valued, and Billy Beane had begun concentrating on high school players, a group he once largely ignored, in the MLB draft, considering them to be heavily undervalued.

Billy Beane has agreed to help the Earthquakes front office develop a method for building a cost-effective team, as the salary cap in MLS is even more restrictive than the Athletics status as a small-market team in Major League Baseball.

Billy Beane has regarded Arsenal's former manager Arsene Wenger as a personal idol.

Billy Beane served as a consultant for, and appears in, the video game MLB Front Office Manager.

The book and Billy Beane's methods have influenced the way many teams and players think about the game of baseball.

Billy Beane attended the University of California, San Diego, during the baseball off-seasons of his playing career.