Moneyball

Oakland A’s manager attempts to assemble a team by using computer-generated analysis to acquire players., Baseball general manager Billy Beane reinvents the Oakland A’s by employing unorthodox scouting methods that initially make him a laughingstock in the major leagues., Struggling for funding, baseball coach Billy Beane works on an ingenious system to turn around the fortunes of the lowly Oakland Athletics. Drama., Bennett Miller’s adaptation of Michael Lewis’ non-fiction best seller Moneyball stars Brad Pitt as Billy Beane, a one-time phenom who flamed out in the big leagues and now works as the GM for the Oakland Athletics, a franchise that’s about to lose their three best players to free agency. Because the team isn’t in a financial position to spend as much as perennial favorites like the Yankees and the Red Sox, Beane realizes he needs to radically change how he evaluates what players can bring to the squad. After he meets Peter Brand (Jonah Hill), an Ivy League economics major working as an executive assistant for scouting on another team, Beane realizes he’s found the man who understands how to subvert the system of assessing players that’s been in place for nearly a century. However, as the duo begin to acquire players that seem too old, injured, or inept to play major-league baseball, they face stiff resistance from both the A’s longtime scouts and the team’s manager Art Howe (Philip Seymour Hoffman), who outright refuses to allow Beane’s more-nontraditional acquisitions to play. Moneyball screened at the 2011 Toronto International Film Festival., As all the star baseball players are about to depart, Oakland A’s general manager Billy Beane has to assemble a successful new team under Oakland’s lean budget. The story is about what happens when he hires Peter Brand, a young man who uses non-traditional methods, to acquire new players., Baseball general manager Billy Beane reinvents the Oakland A’s by employing unorthodox scouting methods that initially make him a laughing-stock in the major leagues., Struggling for funding, baseball coach Billy Beane works on an ingenious system to turn around the fortunes of the lowly Oakland Athletics., In this fascinating sports comedy-drama, baseball general manager Billy Beane (Brad Pitt) reinvents the Oakland A’s by employing unorthodox scouting methods that initially make him a laughingstock in the major leagues., Oakland A’s general manager Billy Beane’s successful attempt to assemble a baseball team on a lean budget by employing computer-generated analysis to acquire new players.