It's not the same tone but not far off from RomCom scenes where a friend says "pretend I'm the woman you want to seduce" and it's awkward and funny.
And in Moneyball the attitude is "they're professional ball players" like military men waiting for orders to be shipped around where troops are needed.
Moneyball wants you to be on its side.
But when you see a career person's job 'eliminated' after years of notable achievements - with no notice - upending a person going through divorce and serious life-threatening-medical treatment that requires insurance - it doesn't net positive in any ethical or business sense. It doesn't make sense.
Jonah's justification is that baseball's thinking has been medieval. I'm questioning whether the Jack Welch style of cutthroat optimization simply to be the team with the last win of the season is any less medieval.