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Paul DePodesta, described 20 years back as “Google Geek” when he was the Dodgers’ general manager, has been hired by the Hard Rox Life to lead this dusty old baseball town out of the wilderness.

Is he the right or the wrong man for the job? Is this the right year or the wrong decade for DePodesta to be back in baseball? Did the Monforts finally get something right once or wrong again as always?   

Richard and Charles Monfort haven’t come out of hiding in Greeley to welcome DePodesta. They still aren’t willing to sell the franchise as they should and will remain in control of the dollars without sense. But Dick finally followed his younger brother’s advice of thinking outside the batter’s box.

DePodesta brings fresh eyes and ideas to the title of president of baseball operations, but he will be surrounded by Monforts (including sons Walker and Sterling), empty suits and lousy uniforms. However, the man who became renowned in baseball because of the book and the movie “MoneyBall” does have a myriad of issues shadowing his history and this hiring.

In regard to DePodesta’s most recent job, a Cleveland radio show guest said: “Nobody knows what he was doing.” A sportswriter friend said: “Every Browns fan is applauding. The team was 56-99-1 with him.” Did he even know what he was doing?

DePodesta has spent the last 10 years with the Browns as chief strategy officer, whatever that means. In his first two seasons, the Browns lost 31 of 32 games. Sounds like the Denver baseball team with more than 500 losses the past five years.

The 52-year-old former intern, with the then Cleveland Indians, eventually became assistant GM and architect of the new analytics with the A’s, the young (31) general manager of the Dodgers for two seasons before being fired and an executive with the Padres and the Mets for years before suddenly switching sports. He had played football and baseball at Harvard and earned his degree in economics. Rox ex-GM Jeff Bridich (2014-2021) also played baseball at Harvard. What an amazing coincidence.

With the Browns, Paul initially was praised for being a major influencer in the trade for Texans quarterback DeShaun Watson, whose reputation was ruined, and he later was blasted for the record fully guaranteed contract and the QB’s injuries and personal and legal problems. Both Watson and Paul were big blowouts in Cleveland.

It was claimed that DePodesta was run out of L.A. after the Dodgers’ 71-91 record in 2005 by the nation’s top sports columnist at The Times – Bill Plaschke.

The Monforts are the anti-Robin Hood – stealing from the poor fans and giving the riches to players Kris Bryant, Ian Desmond, Daniel Murphy, Bryan Shaw, Wade Davis and a parade of pathetic picks in the draft.

Will DePodesta have DePower to gut the major and minor league systems and the drafting and the signings and bring in his own executives, scouts, coaches, and especially a new general manager and a new manager? Or will DePodesta be constrained financially, and frustratingly, by the Roxbottoms Knuckleheads?

I advocated weeks ago the club hire Thad Levine, who most recently was Twins VP-GM. DePodesta and Levine were both from Alexandria, Va., and played youth soccer on the same team. Reunited 40 years later?

The Roxbottoms’ interim manager Warren Schaeffer and bench coach Clint Hurdle, the ex-Rockies manager, are twisting in the wind, but DePodesta and Levine should consider Bruce Bochy, Bob Melvin and Rocco Baldelli, who was with Levine in Minnesota.

While DePodesta has been away from baseball for a decade, the sabermetric analytics and next-gen statistics have drastically changed. He certainly must not apply the high-altitude stratagems of his early mentor in Cleveland – Dan O’Dowd, the prickly GM in Colorado from 1999-2014, who I believe urged Dick Monfort to select DePodesta.

The Monfort’s selling of the franchise would be the optimum solution, but Party Deck Dick finally was forced to surrender a measure of authority to an outsider.

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