The moves that prove baseball’s ‘crapshoot’ theory is gone

LOS ANGELES – The crapshoot is dead. It’s been nearly 15 years since “Moneyball” came out and Oakland’s Billy Beane was quoted as saying it was his job to get the A’s into the playoffs, and then whatever happened afterward was luck. And, of course, in a small sample size — best-of-five, best-of-seven — there...