Billy Beane

Grady Fuson returned to the Oakland Athletics after an eight-year absence this spring, assuming the role of an adviser to general manager Billy Beane and the A's player development staff.Yeah, that Grady Fuson, the former A's scouting director, who seven years ago was a prime target of the arrows in "Moneyball," which prompted him to verbally dress down Beane for the way the operation of the A's was portrayed in the book."If he wants to show no appreciation to the team he had in place, it's his prerogative,'' Fuson told San Francisco Chronicle baseball writer Susan Slusser at the time of the book's publication, "but it's sad because of the loyalty of those people who traveled from city to city and spent nights and nights away from home and are now called old codgers."So what's up?Nothing, really, other than Beane being Beane, driven to win to the point that he can truly let bygones be bygones.Beane knows that Fuson understands what it takes to developing a winning organization and earl...

Read More ›