The Extra 2%
How Wall Street Strategies Took a Major League Baseball Team from Worst to First

Its natural comparison is "Moneyball" and that's not really fair because the Athletics and Rays stories are so vastly different and there's very few people on the planet that can write like Michael Lewis. The focus here in Keri's book is the Rays, the Wall Street geniuses who bought them and how the......more

This is not one of those baseball books where you get the joy of playing ball, the thrill of the grass, the blue sky, white ball and windblown dirt of the infield. Nothing poetic about this one. Don’t expect that going in. This is more of what I’d call a business biography of a baseball team. Succes......more

Took me way too long to read this but the main things I learned: -- The former Devil Rays owner was a cheap miser who had no business owning a professional team -- The revenue streams of the Yankees and Red Sox are so ridiculous, it's incredible that any other team can win a World Series. -- I dislike......more

After so thoroughly enjoying 'Up Up and Away', Keri's new book on the Expos, I went after his first book, all about the Tampa Bay Rays. This book wasn't the same history as the Expos book, but also a bit more examination of the forward thinking used by the Owner, GM, and other members of Tampa's bra......more

This is what you get when combining the math awesomeness that is statistical analysis with insider baseball – a great look into what it takes to put a winning baseball team on the field. Now if you got tons of cash you can just skip all of this nonsense and just buy the best talent at the top prices......more