Comparing the 2012 Athletics’ Wild Comeback to the ‘Moneyball’ Season

It's official. The best story in the Major Leagues in 2012 has a happy regular season ending. The A's, in a game very much symbolic of their entire year, shook off a slow start to blister the Texas Rangers 12-5, completing a remarkable comeback to win the AL West title in front of a joyous Oakland Coliseum crowd.

You know, it still really doesn't seem that long ago that the 2002 A's (aka Team Moneyball) rode an amazing, historic hot streak to win the division and enter the playoffs in much the same fashion. For all of the stars that team had (Hudson, Mulder, Zito, AL MVP Miguel Tejada, Chavez, etc.), there were plenty of role players that delivered in big moments.

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