LAS VEGAS — A few years ago, Paul DePodesta was having lunch with some of his Cleveland Browns colleagues when the conversation turned to baseball. The group was lamenting the state of the sport at the time. The games were too long and the strikeouts were too frequent. The group turned quiet for a moment, until someone broke the silence by saying, “Yeah, thanks, Paul.”

Even in football, DePodesta was being blamed for the demise of baseball.

DePodesta, of “Moneyball” fame, is back in baseball after a 10-year stint in the NFL with the Browns. The Colorado Rockies recently tapped him to head up their baseball operations department, his first job in baseball since he left the Mets in 2016. Given that his last stop in the sport was in Queens, he’s taking lessons learned from his time with t

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