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The Extra 2% How Wall Street Strategies Took a Major League Baseball Team from Worst to First

Jonah Keri

What happens when three financial industry whiz kids and certified baseball nuts take over an ailing major league franchise and implement the same strategies that fueled their success on Wall Street? In the case of the 2008 Tampa Bay Rays, an American League championship happens—the culmination of o...

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The Dan Le Batard Show

The hosts referenced the Jonah Carey book, The Extra 2%, while discussing the Rays' progressive, "new Moneyball" approach, indicating it as a smart resource for the organization.

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I got to imagine Joe Madden, the Rays manager with us, and this is a progressive organization. They're considered the new Moneyball. We've talked to you about the Jonah Carey book, the extra 2%. They'...

— Episode: Best of DLS: A Stocking Stuffer of Baseb...

Episode: Best of DLS: A Stocking Stuffer of Baseball Manger...

The hosts referenced the Jonah Carey book, The Extra 2%, while discussing the Rays' progressive, "new Moneyball" approach, indicating it as a smart resource for the organization.

"

I got to imagine Joe Madden, the Rays manager with us, and this is a progressive organization. They're considered the new Moneyball. We've talked to you about the Jonah Carey book, the extra 2%. They're a very smart organization.

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