“It took baseball backwards” – Ex-Phillies GM blames Brad Pitt’s “Moneyball” for MLB’s overreliance on analytics

Jonah Hill, Brad Pitt, and Bennett Miller - Source: Getty

Brad Pitt's Academy Award-nominated movie, "Moneyball," a biopic about baseball manager Billy Beane, was a critical and commercial success. However, former Philadelphia Phillies general manager Ruben Amaro Jr. does not seem to like the acclaimed film.

On Monday's episode of the "Phillies Show," Todd Zalecki, Jim Salisbury and Amaro Jr. delved into the topic of best baseball films during a Q&A session with fans. Amaro Jr. shared his reservations about the movie.

"Here's my take on that movie, I think it was an entertaining movie. I think a lot of the thinks that, the reasons why the A's were so good were not because of [Scott Hatteberg]," Amaro Jr. said [38:43 -39:05].