Un-Moneyball

How stupid are the Mets? With only a handful of teams out of the playoff picture, the 'market' for players was completely overheated. Suffering from cognitive dissonance, the Mets were buyers when they should have been sellers.

When Michael Lewis asked the Oakland A's Billy Beane why he was willing to reveal his 'secrets' about baseball general management in Lewis's book, Moneyball, Beane replied that the other teams were too stupid too accept his 'radical' views. He obviously had the Mets in mind.