Reddit reviews The Extra 2%: How Wall Street Strategies Took a Major League Baseball Team from Worst to First
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Jonah Keri already wrote this book. It's called The Extra 2%, and it's awesome.
Edit: It's even got some segments in it where he interviews Lewis.
Well, he did write an entire book on the team. He's mostly an Expos guy IIRC, but he probably harbors some feelings for the intelligently run Rays
You've strangely conflated development infrastructure with players. Importing Korean players would do nothing to help teams understand how to scout out promising native talent and coach them to success -- which is the main reason why Korea got so good to begin with.
>It's a universal concept across competitive sports, and it makes sense that it would apply to esports as well.
Importing players to help build your infrastructure is not a universal concept around sports. Nobody in traditional sports is stupid enough to expect a player to help your scouting and development operation.
There are other universal concepts around sports though: the concept of representing your country. No other sport with major national/regional based international competition allows players to compete for nations/regions they aren't a part of. Another concept that is generally understood in traditional sports is that it takes time and effort to develop players. NA teams compare raw NA rookies to experienced import vets and conclude that NA doesn't have talent. If they had any prior sporting experience they would know that those are apples-to-oranges comparisons. Focusing on developing internal talent instead of chasing sexy external options is the main way Billy Beane was able to surpass his rival is Moneyball.
Likewise, in The Extra 2% Joni Keri describes how the Rays rebuilt by stopping to sign overvalued free agents in favor of focusing on scouting and drafting young promising players into their own system like David Price and Evan Longoria -- a process that eventually led to a Pennant.
If you want to make overtures towards traditional sports, you really should read more about them before spouting ignorant nonsense.