Their track record of being cheap is world-renowned.
The Athletics — formerly of Oakland, currently of Sacramento, futurely of Las Vegas — are best known by the majority of non-baseball fans as the stingiest franchise in professional sports. It is a penny-pinching penchant made Hollywood famous by Brad Pitt in “Moneyball.” The analytical ingenuity lionized in the film was necessary only because of ownership’s refusal to invest in anything resembling a normal MLB payroll. And so, for most people, the A’s are a caricatured symbol of sporting frugality.
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