Rockies hire ex-A's exec Paul DePodesta to run their baseball operations

"The Rockies have selected Paul DePodesta as the club's new head of baseball operations. Here's everything you need to know about the 52-year-old tasked with leading Colorado out of its worst three-year stretch in club history. The team has yet to make an official announcement about the hire. DePodesta, currently the Chief Strategy Officer for the Cleveland Browns, is most famous for one of his first jobs in baseball."

"He played baseball and football for the Crimson. As Lewis wrote in Moneyball, DePodesta was just the sort of person who might have made an easy fortune in finance, but the market for baseball players, in Paul's view, was far more interesting than anything Wall Street offered. DePodesta's first baseball job was with Cleveland, where he started in 1996 as an intern in player development."

Paul DePodesta, 52, has been selected as head of baseball operations for the Colorado Rockies and will aim to reverse the franchise's worst three-year stretch. He currently serves as Chief Strategy Officer for the Cleveland Browns and is known for his earlier baseball career as assistant general manager to Oakland GM Billy Beane. DePodesta graduated from Harvard with a degree in economics and played baseball and football there. He began in baseball with Cleveland in 1996, advancing from intern in player development to advance scout and special assistant to the GM. With Oakland from 1999 to 2003, he helped apply sabermetrics in roster construction and drafting.

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