When it comes to “Daily Show” correspondents finding success in the movies, Steve Carell will probably never be beat in terms of box office. But now that Demetri Martin has been cast in Steven Soderbergh’s next film “Moneyball,” the latter comedian has at least already bettered his “Daily Show” predecessor in terms of prestige roles. Martin, who also currently stars in his own hit Comedy Central series, “Important Things with Demetri Martin,” can soon be seen in Ang Lee’s “Taking Woodstock.”

According to Variety, he will go from one Oscar-winning auteur to another by next portraying real-life statistician Paul De Podesta in Soderbergh’s adaptation of Michael Lewis’ non-fiction book about Oakland Athletics general manager Billy Beane.

Brad Pitt was already cast last fall in the lead role as Beane, a former Major League outfielder who went on to manage the A’s, which had one of the smallest team budgets in baseball. The movie will tell the story of how he, along with Harvard grad De Podesta, figured out a cost-effective system for scouting quality players by applying a kind of computerized statistical research called sabermetrics. De Podesta’s specific method, labeled “Earned Run Value,” is based on things such as on base percentage and slugging percentage rather than the usual RBI and batting-average figures used more popularly in the past by baseball statisticians.

In addition to Martin’s casting, Variety also reports that Soderbergh has enlisted some famous ballplayers for the film. Former Athletics David Justice and Scott Hatteberg are signed on to play themselves, and two of Beane’s former teammates from the Mets, Darryl Strawberry and Lenny Dykstra, will show up in the form of onscreen interviews. Oscar-winning screenwriter Steven Zaillian (“Schindler’s List”) is presently still reworking the screenplay to the film, which is set to begin shooting in June.