The Rockies have a brand new head of baseball operations.
Colorado employed longtime sports activities govt Paul DePodesta for the job because the franchise seems to show its fortunes round, The Post's Joel Sherman reported Thursday.
DePodesta, who spent practically twenty years in entrance places of work throughout the massive leagues, has labored for the NFL's Browns as their chief technique officer since 2016 after making the stunning soar from baseball to soccer.
He served stints in entrance places of work for the then-Indians, A's, Dodgers, Padres and Mets, for whom he was the vp of participant growth and scouting from 2010-16 beneath common supervisor Sandy Alderson.
DePodesta is probably most well-known for being a significant character in Michael Lewis' best-selling e-book “Moneyball,” when he served as A's GM Billy Beane's right-hand man throughout the daybreak of the sabermetrics period in baseball. Jonah Hill's Peter Model character within the film model is partially based mostly on DePodesta.
He'll now have a tall process in Denver with the struggling Rockies.
Colorado hasn't had a profitable season since 2018 and is coming off one of many worst three-year stretches in current MLB historical past, shedding 101 or extra video games all three years.
Final season, the Rockies misplaced 119 video games, which tied for the third-most losses in a single season since 1961, the yr MLB went to a 162-game season.
Executives have lengthy had a tricky time placing a profitable squad on the sector with the Rockies' mile-high digs.
Since debuting as an growth franchise in 1993, the Rockies have made the postseason simply 5 occasions.
The scenario isn't all that totally different from the Browns, who had endured eight straight shedding seasons when DePodesta joined the franchise in 2016.
It hasn't gotten significantly better in Cleveland with DePodesta in tow, although, having put up simply two profitable seasons in eight full seasons since.
