…his first straight role in Moneyball (2011), based on a book by Michael Lewis. In the sports drama he played an earnest baseball statistician advising Oakland Athletics manager Billy Beane (Brad Pitt) on how to assemble a winning team on a shoestring budget, and, for his mesmerizing performance, Hill was…

” A well-received film adaptation of the book was released in 2011. It featured Brad Pitt as the Athletics’ general manager Billy Beane and was nominated for six Academy Awards, including best actor (Pitt), best picture, and best adapted screenplay (Aaron Sorkin, Steven Zaillian, and Stan Chervin).

…Beane in the baseball drama Moneyball (2011). The film chronicles how Beane assembled successful teams with the Oakland Athletics by using statistics to acquire cheaper, less-well-known players. Pitt subsequently starred as a mob enforcer in the crime drama Killing Them Softly (2012) and as a former United Nations investigator fighting…

…played catcher-turned-first-baseman Scott Hatteburg in Moneyball (2011), a Navy SEAL in Kathryn Bigelow’s Zero Dark Thirty (2012), and a colleague of the protagonist (Joaquin Phoenix) in Spike Jonze’s Her (2013).

…Moneyball (which became a hit movie nearly a decade later) spurred a number of major-league owners and executives to take sabermetrics more seriously, and over the next few years there was a rush to hire sabermetricians, many of whom first wrote for numbers-oriented Web sites like Baseball Prospectus, FanGraphs, and…

…screenplay for the baseball drama Moneyball (2011); an adaptation of a book by Michael Lewis, the film told the true-life story of how Oakland A’s general manager Billy Beane assembled a winning team on a small budget through the use of statistics. Sorkin revisited television as both a medium and…