Moneyball is Brad Pitt At His Best

It’s also just a great movie

Sony Pictures

For reasons that baffle and elude me, Moneyball has become one of my go-to comfort movies.¹

Moneyball is based on a nonfiction book of the same name. The story follows Billy Beane’s (Brad Pitt) use of data analytics to improve the Oakland Athletics, an approach that revolutionizes baseball. That probably makes it sound like a…