Money is a big part in all of sports. Money gets teams players and upgrades stadiums. The one thing money wasn't supposed to do was buy wins. In 2002, teams still couldn't buy wins, but they mine as well have. In 2002, the New York Yankees had over three times the payroll of the Oakland Athletics. Though the New York Yankees couldn't buy themselves a win, they could buy Oakland's players for double or triple what the A's were able to pay them. This made it almost impossible for the A's to ever beat the Yankees, but somehow they did. How is that possible? Well, the A's didn't go into bidding wars with the Yankees, instead, they took players who had proven themselves productive, but had minor flaws so other teams looked past them. This stradegy was a new way of looking at baseball. Billy Beane, the A's general manager, was the head of this operation. If it would fail, he would surely lose his job, however if it would succeed, he would be remembered forever as the man who changed baseball.