By Alvin Alexander. Last updated: July 2, 2016
This is a good article by Joe Posnanski about the Oakland A’s continued success with a very low payroll and crummy ballpark, The Oakland Way.
“We’re no smarter than anybody else,” Oakland’s Director of Baseball Operations Farhan Zaidi says. “We’re not trying to be smarter than anybody else. We’re just trying to stay true to our philosophy of building a baseball team.” Later: Almost every point he makes about the A’s success he punctuates with a comment like, “This is something everyone in baseball knows.”