You REALLY have to be familiar with pro baseball to keep up...

Rating: 8/10 (25 September 2011)

Or else you won't know what's going on watching a lot of scenes of managers negotiating with scouts and signing agents as a strategy for creating a winning pro baseball team on the cheap.
It's a strategy movie and it's very well made and acted, but I have to warn you that you may get lost if you don't know a thing about baseball. You really have to pay attention to phone tag sessions tricking people into selling one player and canning another and why that's a winning strategy and a brilliant one as you will see.
It changed the way pro baseball did business in a way that will get you scratching your head on how it was done. It's basically centered around buying and positioning players in the field based on what they accomplished or ended up being good at on the field statistically despite their quirks, not based on their specialization, popularity and price tag.
I liked the characters and the realism, ambiance and mood depicting the business of pro baseball. It was enjoyable given I knew very little on the subject of the movie but it's not deserving of 10 out of 10 in my opinion.