First Look:Moneyball, Brad Pitt Score One for Baseball Geeks

For movie - perish baseball geek , it ’s almost time to play ball .

Almost three months before it ’s due to hit theaters , Sony Pictures has ultimately released a full - length preview for Moneyball , an adaptation ofMichael Lewis ’ 2003 bestsellerthat chronicle how the Oakland Atheltics used data point analysis and advance calculations to field a winning baseball game team on the cheap .

The film stars Brad Pitt asBilly Beane , the Athletics general manager who orchestrated the motion . Jonah Hill plays Peter Brand , therenamed versionofPaul DePodesta , the Harvard - train wunderkind who was Beane ’s right hand throughout the franchise ’s change of mind .

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For those unfamiliar with the A ’s team of 10 years ago , the ball club never actually pull ahead to a World Series , but their ahead - thinking philosophy and techniques wereemulated by other teamsthat did go on to much winner .

coddler warning signal : The film will almost sure enough culminate with the 2002 golf-club ’s historical 20 - secret plan winnings streak . That twentieth game was for certain the stuff of any Hollywood screenplay . Playing at home , the A ’s blew an 11 - streak jumper lead , only to have Scott Hatteberg ( playact by Parks and Recreation ’s Chris Pratt ) hita game - winning habitation runin the bottom of the 9th . In the book , Hatteberg is one of those A ’s most championed by Beane and his progressive style of player evaluation .

Directed by Oscar - nomineeBennett Miller(Capote ) , the film also star Philip Seymour Hoffman as A ’s manager Art Howe and former San Francisco Giants shortstop Royce Clayton as then - A ’s shortstopMiguel Tejada(who coincidentally now trifle for the Giants ) .

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