HR’s field of dreams

Lessons from the ball diamond can help HR transform from transactional to strategic

Billy Beane, general manager of the Oakland Athletics, wanted to find out what player skills lead to winning games. Using sabermetrics, a process that analyzes past performance in baseball such as batting averages, bunting, stealing and getting to base, he found the hitters most skilled at getting to base were most strongly linked to winning scores.

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