Eric McErlain of Off Wing Opinion set me a link to this article by Paul DePodesta, the assistant GM of the Athletics. It's not published as a baseball article. It's title is "The Genesis, Implementation, and Management of New Systems." He discusses how the A's challenged everything they thought they knew by asking the question, “If we weren't already doing it this way, is this the way we would start?”

He also quotes from The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas Kuhn. I've talked about that book in reference to the A's before, so it's nice to see I'm on the same page as DePodesta.

Read this article, not just because you're interested in baseball, but because it applies to so many things we do in life.

Also, be sure to follow the link to Off Wing Opinion for an article on how Rick Peterson is applying biometrics to the Mets pitching staff.

Update: The above link no longer works. It appears the speech was pulled when DePodesta got the LA job. However, you might be able to find it here.