The Colorado Rockies are set to hire Paul DePodesta as their president of baseball operations, per the Athletic.

This would not be that surprising if this were being done a decade ago. DePodesta was one Billy Beane’s top lieutenants with the Oakland A’s beginning in 1999, and was featured prominently in Michael Lewis’s book Moneyball, as well as in the subsequent movie, where he was portrayed by Jonah Hill. DePodesta was hired by the Los Angeles Dodgers as their general manager in February, 2004, but was fired in October, 2005. He then spent time in the front offices of the San Diego Padres and the New York Mets.

However, DePodesta hasn’t worked in baseball since January, 2016, when the Cleveland Browns of the National Football League hired him away from the Mets to be the team’s chief s

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