The Colorado Rockies have worked out a deal to hire Cleveland Browns chief strategy officer Paul DePodesta, according to ESPN. DePodesta, age 52, originally was with the Los Angeles Dodgers, San Diego Padres, and New York Mets before being hired by the Browns in 2016 to run their analytics program.

In July of 2021, DePodesta signed a five-year contract with Cleveland in an effort to use numbers and analytics to find quality players to improve the roster.

It was widely known that DePodesta was the real-life person portrayed by Jonah Hill in the baseball movie “Moneyball” regarding how the Oakland Athletics used statistics and numbers in order to find productive players on the cheap.

DePodesta is now returning to baseball, where he has reportedly been hired to run the Rockies’ baseball op

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