New Dodgers president Andrew Friedman came to baseball from a banking background and helped turn around a moribund Tampa Bay Rays franchise before taking the job with Los Angeles last month.
Theriot’s argument is both tired and fundamentally silly. Though Billy Beane’s A’s have not won a championship in his tenure as GM, every Major League club uses some combination of analytics and scouting to assess its players and construct its rosters. And Michael Lewis’ book Moneyball was, at its core, about trying to exploit market inefficiencies, which is more or less just common sense.
And as MLB pitcher Brandon McCarthy soon pointed out, a lack of experience playing professional baseball did not prevent a couple of MLB execs from signing Theriot:
  Neither Giants GM Brian Sabean nor Cardinals GM John Mozeliak, under whom Theriot earned his first ring in 2011, ever played baseball professionally. Ted Berg/USA Today Sports
 

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