The mystery about who the Colorado Rockies were going to hire to lead their baseball operations department was solved when they dropped the bombshell that they were hiring Paul DePodesta.
They lived up to their promise that they were going to bring someone in from outside the organization. But they shocked everyone when they brought someone in who is from outside the sport.
That’s right. DePodesta hasn’t worked in baseball since 2016. And he hasn’t run a front office since 2005 when he was fired as the general manager of the Los Angeles Dodgers after he was hired in February of 2004.
If the Rockies would have made this hire 10 years ago, it would have made a ton of sense. DePodesta was an early adopter of sabermetrics alongside then-Oakland Athletics GM Billy Beane in 1999. That got him portrayed by Jonah Hill in the movie “Moneyball” after he was a key part in the book of the same name written by Michael Lewis.
Rockies Made Beyond Questionable Decision by Hiring Paul DePodesta