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# The MVP Machine: How Baseball's New Nonconformists Are Using Data to Build Better Players Hardcover – June 4, 2019

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## Customer Reviews

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    It's Indiana Jones for nerds, basically.
  

*by A***M on Reviewed in the United States on June 8, 2019*

I scheduled having a wisdom tooth removed around this book's delivery date. I had intended to parse it out over the long weekend.  I finished it in a day.Ben and Travis connect interest points in baseball analytics like an Indian Jones movie connects the cities he disrupts with a sweet graphic.The material can get dense, but there is a backbone of a storyline and great descriptive writing that make it feel far less than arduous.From curious baseball fans to the esoteric freaks who spend more time on baseball-reference than talking to your family when you're having Thanksgiving dinner at Golden Corral despite your father's headshaking and your mother's tears, it's a necessary read to have a hold on the current state of the game.

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    If you really want to know why baseball is the way it is right now...
  

*by J***O on Reviewed in the United States on June 24, 2019*

Lindbergh and Sawchik provide a really interesting look at the science behind player development in baseball.Imagine being able to throw a slider, look at images showing exactly how it came off your fingers, and measure its exact break. Then move your finger 1/1000th of an inch, check the break, and repeat the process until you've got just the movement you're looking for.Imagine being able to hit a pitch from a pitching machine, and know exactly where and how it hit your bat. Imagine being able to adjust your swing ever so slightly to get more loft and spin on your fly balls. It's not science fiction - it's happening.Data is everywhere. Teams can use it to help their players develop, and players can also use it to help themselves. It's changing teams' relationships with their players, and players' dependence on their teams for help with their development. It's also changing teams' approaches to how they scout and sign players, and impacting how (and which) teams are able to locate and develop the best players.If Moneyball was really about exploiting unappreciated skills that were already there, then The MVP Machine is about exploiting undeveloped talents that are hiding under the surface. If Moneyball was based on the assumption that talent was fixed and development didn't matter, than The MVP Machine challenges that assumption.The players and teams that can adjust to this new paradigm will be the ones who win... until the next big thing comes along, anyway.

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    A book that explains the next phase of player development in friendly language
  

*by E***  on Reviewed in the United States on July 26, 2019*

For those of you who are wondering if this book is worth your hard earned money - yes it is. After reading this book you will not only be ahead of the curve (no pun intended) at the water cooler at work but you will be prepared to answer the latest question by Jeff Luhnow which is,"what is the next best thing in baseball?"If you're still reading, I'd like to say as a person who has watched, played and studied baseball since the 1972 World Series, this book not only explains the latest in player development but is written in an engaging manner by Ben Lindbergh and Travis Sawchik. I was not intimidated by its size or use of graphic organizers that most Sabermetricians dream about. Since I do not subscribe to the Brian Kenny view of baseball as it currently exists I came to this book having:a. Enjoyed Ben's first book on baseball;b. Having read Moneyball for the first time after avoiding it due to the overhype it was given by all of baseball "experts".Ben and Travis hit it out of ball park by mixing personal stories with the science of player development. Their writing is clear and entertaining and is easy to follow. I found it so engaging that I finished the book in two days despite a busy life style. My only peeve in terms of writing style is that in some instances Ben or Travis will refer to the other by first name when discussing a vignette because they co-wrote book and want to tell the story as if the two them were sitting at your kitchen table telling you what they knew. A small peeve on my part.As a historian of the game, I was glad they gave Branch Rickey his due as he truly brought player development to the game of baseball. If Rickey were alive today there is no doubt in my mind he'd be employing the technology outlined in this book.As a fan of the a Orioles I would have liked to seen credit given to Paul Richards, Jim McLaughlin and George Bamberger for their roles developing skilled baseball players but I understand that Ben and Travis wanted to keep the book in the present in order to not make the book run more than the 300 plus pages they wrote.

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