20 Things You Didn’t Know About Moneyball

By Jack Pooley / February 20, 2023

1. The Oakland Athletics Repeated Their Success The Year After The Movie Came Out

Quite poetically, the year after Moneyball was released, the A's repeated their success by winning the AL West, once again under Billy Beane.

Despite the Texas Rangers being the odds-on favourites to emerge victorious, the A's pulled ahead by winning the last game of the season, beating the Rangers by just a single victory.

And as if yet again proving the point of the movie, Beane pulled this momentous feat off with what was at the time the second-lowest payroll in baseball, at just $59.5 million.

Aptly, both fans and the press alike dubbed the season "Moneyball 2."