[Purple Row] What does Paul DePodesta bring to the Rockies?
November 10, 2025
[Purple Row] What does Paul DePodesta bring to the Rockies?
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Front office experience in dealing with untenable contracts to ex-superstars with baggage.
Right now, a name beginning with De.
Ask again when he’s done something that fans can see has moved the needle off the E.
With him being out of baseball for almost 10 years, what does Rockies baseball bring to Paul DePodesta.
The team doesn’t have anything to lose coming off the record and the amount of injuries we had last season. The Bryant contract will probably be the most interesting variable in how the Rox move forward. I dont think there will be a fire sale as most of the player salaries are far below unsustainable contracts. We have already opted out of numerous mutuals.
Roster to my knowledge is at 39 which honestly is kinda wild 2 weeks post World Series so we will see
> DePodesta also has significant experience working with owners that are cheap, meddlesome, or even both. The Schott-Hofmann ownership group of the Oakland Athletics was notorious for slashing payroll and a refusal to pay their star players or free agents. With the Dodgers he worked under the dysfunctional—but temporarily profitable—ownership of Frank McCourt, and in a later stint with the New York Mets he worked under the Wilpons. With the Browns he worked under owner Jimmy Haslam, who has infamously overridden the decisions of his front office on multiple occasions. Despite that, DePodesta found some modicum of success at all of his stops in various team front offices.
This is a big selling point for me. The guy knows how to work with/under horrible owners. Dick isn’t unwilling to spend, so I have hope that DePodesta can guide the decision-making process in a way that makes Monfort believe it was his idea lol
A warm body
Certainly nothing that makes the Monforts feel threatened in any way.
Wasn’t this the PizzaGate guy?
DePodesta brings a commitment to advanced statistical analysis. The problems to be solved of baseball at altitude as well as budget/payroll will never be overcome without advanced stats. The Rockies will also continue to make Bryant-esque deals based on the eyeball test without a commitment to heavy analytics. If the Rockies want to win they need to be above average investors in the analytics department. So, even if DePodesta can’t personally get the Rockies to the promised land if he can demonstrate both the financial and competitive usefulness of analytics to the Monforts enough to truly begin to change the culture in the front office in Denver, then he will have been a successful hire imo.
8 comments
Front office experience in dealing with untenable contracts to ex-superstars with baggage.
Right now, a name beginning with De.
Ask again when he’s done something that fans can see has moved the needle off the E.
With him being out of baseball for almost 10 years, what does Rockies baseball bring to Paul DePodesta.
The team doesn’t have anything to lose coming off the record and the amount of injuries we had last season. The Bryant contract will probably be the most interesting variable in how the Rox move forward. I dont think there will be a fire sale as most of the player salaries are far below unsustainable contracts. We have already opted out of numerous mutuals.
Roster to my knowledge is at 39 which honestly is kinda wild 2 weeks post World Series so we will see
> DePodesta also has significant experience working with owners that are cheap, meddlesome, or even both. The Schott-Hofmann ownership group of the Oakland Athletics was notorious for slashing payroll and a refusal to pay their star players or free agents. With the Dodgers he worked under the dysfunctional—but temporarily profitable—ownership of Frank McCourt, and in a later stint with the New York Mets he worked under the Wilpons. With the Browns he worked under owner Jimmy Haslam, who has infamously overridden the decisions of his front office on multiple occasions. Despite that, DePodesta found some modicum of success at all of his stops in various team front offices.
This is a big selling point for me. The guy knows how to work with/under horrible owners. Dick isn’t unwilling to spend, so I have hope that DePodesta can guide the decision-making process in a way that makes Monfort believe it was his idea lol
A warm body
Certainly nothing that makes the Monforts feel threatened in any way.
Wasn’t this the PizzaGate guy?
DePodesta brings a commitment to advanced statistical analysis. The problems to be solved of baseball at altitude as well as budget/payroll will never be overcome without advanced stats. The Rockies will also continue to make Bryant-esque deals based on the eyeball test without a commitment to heavy analytics. If the Rockies want to win they need to be above average investors in the analytics department. So, even if DePodesta can’t personally get the Rockies to the promised land if he can demonstrate both the financial and competitive usefulness of analytics to the Monforts enough to truly begin to change the culture in the front office in Denver, then he will have been a successful hire imo.