Jonah Keri is the co-author and editor of Baseball Between the Numbers: Why Everything You Know About the Game Is Wrong, as well as a contributor to ESPN.com, SI.com, Baseball Prospectus, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and other publications. He writes the flagship stock market column for Investor’s Business Daily and has been named the lead baseball analyst for the new Bloomberg sports venture.
“The rise of the Rays over the last half-decade has been so
improbable it seems as if it was done by magic. It wasn’t. It took
hard work, know-how, luck, and—as the title of this book
suggests—those little moves on the margins that make all the
difference. THE EXTRA 2% is far from a financial research paper,
though—it is a fun, lively, and very smart read that might just
make you into a Rays fan.” —Will Leitch, author of Are We
Winning?
“Jonah Keri has given us a fascinating look at how the Tampa Bay
(Devil) Rays became winners. THE EXTRA 2% is a captivating book if
you love baseball, but it’s an even more captivating book if you
love success.” —Joe Posnanski, senior writer, Sports
Illustrated
“Tampa Bay winning the American League East ahead of the Yankees
and the Red Sox twice in three years is one of the most
underappreciated sports accomplishments of the last twenty years.
Jonah Keri has written a combination business book and wonderful
collection of anecdotes that should allow the reader to easily
answer the question ‘What was Tampa Bay thinking?’ as well as
understand how difficult it will always be for a team in that
market to open its competitive window for longer than three years
at a time.” —Peter Gammons, three-time National Sportswriter of the
Year
“The Tampa Bay Rays—with their ma-and-pa-sized budget—have gone
head to head with baseball’s two superpowers, the Yankees and the
Red Sox. In the superb THE EXTRA 2%, Jonah Keri explains how and
why in a way that will remind readers of Michael Lewis’s
Moneyball.”
—Buster Olney, senior writer, ESPN The Magazine, and author of How
Lucky You Can Be
“All baseball fans ever ask for is hope: hope not only for a season
out of their dreams, but also for leaders smart enough and
imaginative enough to figure out how to make those dreams reality.
In THE EXTRA 2%, Jonah Keri not only presents this blueprint
followed to perfection but does so with a brilliant page-turner of
a book that will satisfy fans of both baseball and first-rate
writing.” —Mike Vaccaro, columnist, the New York Post
“There are a million ways to build a World Series team, but no one
has ever built one quite like the Wall Street escapees in Tampa
Bay. After reading Jonah Keri’s brilliant account of the Rays’ rise
from laugh track to payback, I found myself thinking, ‘The heck
with Moneyball. Give me Equityball.’ ” —Jayson Stark, senior
writer, ESPN.com
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