Baseball = "Moneyball"

According to Variety both Brad Pitt and Steven Soderbergh are in talks to work on "Moneyball" a Columbia Pictures adaptation of a book written by Michael Lewis titled "Moneyball: The Art of Winning An Unfair Game.". I am a little bit interested in this for a couple of reasons. I like Brad Pitt and most of the time I enjoy his work. I do not think that anything he does in the future is going to ever rival "Fight Club" for me but he is still doing good work. The other reason that I am interested in this story is because the book is about when Billy Beane took the Oakland A's to the brink of the World Series despite having a payroll that was far less then the majority of the teams in major league baseball.

I am just wondering how they are going to make this into an interesting movie. I do think that Beane's ideas have translated into a change in Baseball in terms of teams deciding whether or not to pay the big saleries. I just wonder where the suspense or comedy is going to come from. I would think that this is a story better suited to a documentary but I have been wrong before.