Michael Lewis’s book Moneyball tells how the Oakland A’s baseball team learned new ways to well

predict which prospects would play good in the years ahead.

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--L-7a Editing Adjectives and Adverbs

Edit the following sentences to correct any errors with ADJECTIVES or ADVERBS. Write correct

after sentences without any errors. Answers to even-numbered items can be found at the

back of the book.

EXAMPLE

1. Moneyball looks close at the Oakland A’s and their general manager, Billy Beane.

2. By choosing prospects more careful, the A’s became competitive with the New York

Yankees, who had much more money to spend.

3. Beane succeeded with players who had been playing bad by such traditional standards as

batting average, runs batted in, and stolen bases—and so weren’t highly valued by other

teams.

4. When he was a young player, Beane himself had been widely hailed by scouts but went on

not to do so good.

5. Beane and those scouts may have felt badly about his lackluster performance after such

high expectations.

6. As a manager with a small budget, Beane knew that his team’s odds of success seemed

bad. Looking for a better way to pick players, he turned to a kind of statistics called

sabermetrics.

7. A sabermetrics statistician showed him that players who hadn’t been highly valued by

traditional standards actually looked good when measured by other criteria.

8. The undervalued players scored well on many measures that scouts and managers had not

taken as serious as the traditional ones.

9. After Moneyball was published, other teams hired sabermetric statisticians as quick as they

could.

10. Both copies of the book and tickets to the movie version sold well.

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