Rockies hire ex-A’s exec Paul DePodesta to run their baseball operations

The Rockies have selected Paul DePodesta as the club’s new head of baseball operations.

Here’s everything you need to know about the 52-year-old tasked with leading Colorado out of its worst three-year stretch in club history. The team has yet to make an official announcement about the hire.

DePodesta, currently the Chief Strategy Officer for the Cleveland Browns, is most famous for one of his first jobs in baseball. He was an assistant general manager to Oakland GM Billy Beane, and DePodesta was featured heavily in Michael Lewis’ bestselling book “Moneyball,” which was then turned into a movie. Jonah Hill portrayed DePodesta in the movie as the character Peter Brand.

DePodesta was born in Alexandria, Virginia, and attended Harvard University, where he graduated with a degree in economi