"I want Dye in right, Justice DHing, Pena on the bench, Hatteberg at first and anyone but Mags first out of the pen."
"You want Pena on the bench?"
"That's right. So you can play Hatty."
"Pena is not only the best first baseman on the roster, he's the only first baseman on the roster."
"Listen to me, Hatty gets on base more than Pena. In fact, 20 percent more."
"And his fielding?"
"His fielding does not matter."
"I've heard enough of this."
"Have you?"
"And I, uh...I disagree with you, plain and simple. And moreover, I'm playing my team in a way that I can explain in job interviews next winter."
There are multiple scenes in the Oscar-winning Moneyball that feature Brad Pitt’s Billy Beane and Philip Seymour Hoffman’s Art Howe butting heads over the lineup of the Oakland Athletics. Beane, the general manager, is annoyed that Howe, the manager, is not deploying players properly. Beane and Jonah Hill’s Peter Brand (Paul DePodesta in real life) have discovered a new way of looking at the game, at assessing a player’s value and ability, and Howe is not seeing eye to eye with his bosses.
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