Like many sports movies, Moneyball featured real life athletes to help bring their baseball scenes to life, in roles of varying importance.
Sports films have a history of casting professional athletes, and Moneyball is no exception. Casting sports icons can be a challenge, as finding an actor who can both resemble their physical stature and capture their personality, is incredibly difficult. But Moneyball isn't a tale of sporting legends or of greatness, it's a film about underdogs, and the use of intelligence and ingenuity to overcome unfairness and difficulty in the world of professional sports.
The athlete Bishop portrays, David Justice, was an important part of the real-life Moneyball story. Justice was an older player during the time of the Oakland Athletics' 2002 playoff run. He was traded to the team as an experiment, as Paul DePodesta , wanted to know if players would retain their on base percentage as they grew older. OBP was the main strategy of this team, as explained in the film, and David Justice was one of their first successful experiments.
3 Chad Kreuter The player turned Moneyball actor with the most successful in baseball was Chad Kreuter, who played sixteen years in the MLB. While he doesn't play a player in Moneyball, he does portray baseball pitching coach Rick Peterson. Chad Kreuter played on seven different professional baseball teams during his career, as well as briefly becoming a coach himself for the USC Trojans baseball team.
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