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The players drafted by the Oakland Athletics in 2002 were unwitting participants in one of the most audacious experiments in baseball history: They were the prospects handpicked by A’s general manager Billy Beane—and later the star characters in “Moneyball”—because of a revolutionary approach that suggested they had extraordinary potential that nobody else had noticed.
So what happened to them?
What happened to them is the…