Winning Fixes Everything: How Baseball’s Brightest Minds Created Sports’ Biggest Mess

The reporter who broke the Houston Astros’ dishonest scandal reveals how a baseball crew might so dramatically descend into corruption, with never-before-told particulars of a damaged administration tradition, the once-revered leaders who enabled it and the scandal itself.

Baseball, that outdated romantic sport, has been defaced and consumed by company America. As Moneyball-thinking and Ivy League graduates grabbed maintain of the game, the Astros got down to construct a cost-efficient profitable machine on the rules of the skin enterprise world, squeezing each greenback out of each transaction, participant and worker.

In lower than a decade, ex-Astros basic supervisor Jeff Luhnow helped revolutionize the sport. He created an atmosphere that led to one of many worst dishonest scandals in baseball historical past, a Shakespearean tragedy of innovation and failed change administration. By years of in depth interviews, former Houston Chronicle beat author Evan Drellich, now a nationwide author for The Athletic, delivers the definitive account of baseball’s most controversial franchise and the way a contemporary baseball crew actually works—with out the standard myth-spinning.

Drellich reveals the rise and fall of the Astros to be a collision of subcultures. The crew’s prime boss was a former McKinsey guide who lived on the bleeding edge with no guardrails. He employed outsider after outsider to vary the group as rapidly and cheaply as doable. The wins piled up, and so did the money for the billionaire proprietor with a checkered enterprise previous. However not even a World Collection title might cowl up the rot.

All of it got here at a value to followers, workers, and the game on an entire. However as Profitable Fixes Every little thing makes clear, “The Astros Method” isn’t going wherever. Drellich makes use of the saga of the Astros’ scandal to element the evolution of baseball itself.

ASIN ‏ : ‎ B08NP1MS17
Writer ‏ : ‎ Harper (February 14, 2023)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ February 14, 2023
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File dimension ‏ : ‎ 3234 KB
Textual content-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Display Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
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Print size ‏ : ‎ 364 pages