Liam Healy remembers bumping into Billy Beane the general manager of the Oakland Athletics at a dinner when he was still in the game. Beane created a winning team on a low budget using an analytical and statistical-based approach to choosing players. This strategy changed the way baseball was played and led to a bestselling book by Michael Lewis called Moneyball, which was later made into a movie starring Brad Pitt. “Billy did some special things in looking at the data,” Healy recalled. A former professional baseball player himself, Healy knows better than most the stresses and strains of sport…

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