Oakland Athletics General Manager Billy Beane, has his baseball club right where they want to be. Coming down the stretch, entering the month of September, Oakland has a chance to make the 2012 Major League Baseball postseason. About a year ago, Beane was on the big screen. Brad Pitt played Billy Beane in the movie 'Money Ball'. The movie showed how Beane and his staff utilized different statistics when acquiring talent for his team. Oakland used that formula to make the playoffs several times in the early 2000's. Now the rest of Major League Baseball has picked up and try to copy the success that Beane and his staff used to judge players. Along with Baltimore and Tampa, the Athletics will battle for 1 of 2 American League Wild Card sports during the final full month of the regular season. Beane even in 2012 still is doing it his way and obviously still successful at it. Let's see if Oakland will make the playoffs and if they do how far could they potentially go.
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