Billy Beane Bio, Married, Wife, Net Worth, Ethnicity, Relationship

Billy Beane: Biography in Details

Who is Billy Beane?

Billy Beane is a former American baseball player.

Currently working as executive vice president of the MLB franchise ‘Oakland Athletics’, an American professional baseball team.

He is a minority owner in the EFL championship club Barnsley FC.

Billy Beane: Age, Parents

William Lamar Beane III; famously known as Billy Beane was born on March 29, 1962, in Orlando, Florida, US.

His ethnicity is Caucasian.

He is from a military family and grows up in Mayport, Florida, and San Diego, California.

His father who is a naval officer taught him baseball pitching.

Education, School/College University

Billy Beane completed his schooling at Mt. Carmel High School, located in Rancho Penasquitos, San Diego.

After completing his schooling, Billy Beane went to the University of California.

Professional Life, Career

Billy Beane developed his interest in baseball back in his school days when his school coach helps him to play on the university baseball team.

The American professional baseball team ‘New York Mets,’ selected  Billy from the MLB Draft in 1980.

He received an impressive signing amount of $125,000.

His Beating average was .2210 in the first season.

Billy Beane played only 12 games in 1987 after roster expansion.

In 1998, Minnesota Twins traded Billy to Detroit Tigers where he paly six-game.

Oakland Athletics sign him in the same year.

Billy was the assistant General Manager in three World Series from 1988 to 1990.

On 17 October 1997, Billy Beane became the General Manager of the team.

His team made a record by winning 20 consecutive games.

On April 15, 2005, he extended his contract with Athletics and owned some share of the team ownership.

In 2015 he became Executive Vice President of Baseball Operation of Athletics.

Billy Beane works as General manager for Dutch Football Club.

Awards, Nominations

In 2018, the player won  Executive of the Year by Major League Baseball by receiving the most votes from every team.

Among the list of 10  GMS/Executives of the Decade, he ranked 10 in late 2009.

He won the Executive of the Year twice by The Sporting News.

There are some of his major awards are:

• Bestowed the Award Twice in 2002 & 2013 by Baseball America.
• Greatest in Baseball Yearly from MLB.com
• Rube Foster Award
• World Series Champion

Billy Beane: Net Worth, Income, Salary

In 2023, Billy Beane has an impressive net worth of around $16 million.

In association with Oakland Athletics, he draws roughly $1 million in salaries each year.

He gains around $4 million from the board of directors of NetSuite.

Rumors and Controversy/Scandal

This player always tries to keep himself away from Rumors and Controversy/Scandal.

Height, Weight, Body Size

Billy Beane stands with an attractive height of  6 ft 3 inches and his body weight is 88 kg.

Social Media

Talking about Billy’s availability on social media, Billy Beane is on Twitter and has around 12.2k followers, and on Facebook.

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