NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The inside story from the Houston Astros and the innovators who took them in the worst group in baseball to the World Series in 2017 and 2019

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Astroball picks up where Michael Lewis’s acclaimed Moneyball leaves off, informing the thrilling story of a tournament team that pushed both sport and business of baseball to about Astroball: THE BRAND NEW Way to Gain It All another level. In 2014, the Astros were the worst baseball team in half a hundred years, but just 3 years later they defied critics to win a stunning Globe Series. In this publication, Ben Reiter displays how the Astros constructed something that avoided the stats-versus-scouts divide giving the human factor an integral role in their decision-making. Sitting at the nexus of sports, business, and invention, Astroball may be the tale of the next wave of considering in football and beyond, at once an extraordinary underdog tale and a fascinating go through the leading edge of evaluating and optimizing human potential.