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Beane to Be Athletics’ G.M. Through 2019, Wolff Says
General Manager Billy Beane and President Michael Crowley will remain with
the Oakland Athletics through the 2019 season, club owner Lew Wolff said
today in an interview with Bloomberg Television’s “Bloomberg West.”
Wolff said in San Francisco that the two executives have reached agreements
to stay with the Major League Baseball team and that he expects them to sign
contract extensions within 30 days.
Beane and Crowley both are limited partners in the A’s, with Wolff the
managing partner. Wolff is chairman and chief executive officer of Wolff
Urban Development LLC, a Los Angeles- based real estate firm.
“I view them as partners as well as executives,” Wolff said. “So if they
are here another 30 years, that is fine with me. I may not be here to see it,
but that will be fine.”
Beane, 49, has been the team’s general manager since the end of the 1997
season. He is the subject of Michael Lewis’s 2003 book on baseball
economics, “Moneyball,” which was made into a film starring Brad Pitt as
Beane. Lewis is a columnist for Bloomberg View.
Wolff, 76, discussed the extensions as part of an interview about his desire
to build a new stadium in San Jose, California, and to move the team there in
the next few years.
“Somebody said the reason I am doing it is I want one or the other to be
able to wheel me into the new stadium,” Wolff said.
Crowley took over as team president at the end of the 1998 season.
Beane was traveling and unavailable for comment today. Crowley didn’t
immediately respond to a request for comment made through A’s spokesman Bob
Rose.
The Athletics were 74-88 last season and haven’t made the playoffs since
2006.
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老板延长豆爷的合约，到 2019
豆爷从 1997 当上运动家 GM 到现在，
然后他的故事，钱球，布莱德彼特，大家应该都知道了 XD
Long Live Moneyball!