How the A’s keep shedding million-dollar salaries and collecting division titles remains baseball’s ultimate mystery. —New York Times

Moneyball was published in 2003, and both it and the backlash against it has been one of, probably, the top five stories in baseball since then. The biggest baseball story since 2003 was the Red Sox winning the World Series in 2004 (for the first time in 86 years), and their general manager was Theo Epstein, who worked for Beane in Oakland, was the source of some of Beane's unconventional strategies, and was mentioned repeatedly in the book.

So it's unlikely Jenkins has never heard of Moneyball, sabermetrics, on-base-percentage, or other new-fangled notions. The obvious conclusion is that he read Moneyball (or a summary of it), rejected its contents out of hand, and will remain mystified until the end of his days. Very sad, but deliberate, willful ignorance does seem to be a prerequisite for sportswriters.