Yahoo Sports senior MLB analyst Jake Mintz and senior MLB analyst Jordan Shusterman react to the Colorado Rockies hiring former NFL executive Paul DePodesta as president of baseball operations and question whether he can turn this team around. Hear the full conversation on the “Baseball Bar-B-Cast” podcast – and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you listen.
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The Colorado Rockies have a new head of baseball operations, and his name is Paul D Podesta.
He comes from the Cleveland Browns, one of the NFL’s most successful teams, famously.
When you heard this news, What did you think?
This man, who is clearly an accomplished and well-seasoned executive in multiple sports, has not worked in baseball for over a decade, and that is the great irony, the great, uh, just hilarious sequence of events where the Colorado Rockies have decided to now hire someone who is, I, I’m sure a smart individual, but is now uh tasked with, Ironically, the guy who’s like associated with being ahead of the curve, it is now going to be on Paul Di Podesta to catch up to where baseball is and baseball has gotten since he left baseball in 2016, uh, during which he has had, uh, not a whole lot of success.
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with the Cleveland Browns, but I don’t care about that because that’s not, that’s not our job to evaluate what he has done.
I mean, it certainly doesn’t help from a PR standpoint if you’re trying to explain to Rockies fans why this guy is.
I want to harp on the Browns.
I want to get into the Browns for a second.
OK. OK. All right, yeah.
He made the leap from baseball to the Browns, because the Browns were like, he can help us, the smart mind can help us because he knows numbers and wow, he’s using these numbers.
And I think that if Paul Di Podesta had turned the Browns into some sort of modern football juggernaut, I would be more willing to believe that he could do the same with the Rockies, even though he hasn’t worked in baseball.
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I understand that like the Cleveland Browns are a bigger problem than Paul DeP Podesta, right?
However, he could not save this thing.
He could not fix this thing, and he was there for 10 years.
He was there for 10 years, and they sucked basically the whole time.
I think they made the playoffs twice during that span.
And not only that, Jordan, he oversaw one of the most glaring, awful moves in recent NFL history was to trade for Deshaun Watson and extend it.
That was like Paul de Podesta.
I am certainly excited and intrigued about this, but more from like a car accident situation.
And then from a Paul D Podesta is going to figure this out.