2013 - Billy Beane

Billy Beane – Moneyball and finding value in the marketplace
Billy Beane was once one of the highest rated baseball prospects in the country. His experience as a can’t miss prospect that ended with an unimpressive, six-season major league career (part of it with the 1987 Minnesota Twins) taught him that the conventional wisdom that dominated baseball management was wrong.

Mr. Beane’s value approach to building a baseball team was made famous by Michael Lewis bestselling book Moneyball, which inspired the Oscar-nominated major motion picture that starred Brad Pitt.

Mr. Beane’s approach to buying quality players at the right price is similar to MPMG’s style of selecting businesses to invest in.