DENVER (AP) — Paul DePodesta has made his share of mistakes while working in different front offices. He owned that and even put it in baseball terms.

“I lost my no-hitter a long time ago,” the recently Colorado Rockies’ new president of baseball operations said Thursday at an introductory news conference. “I’m not perfect. I haven’t been perfect. I won’t be perfect going forward.”

DePodesta won’t shy away from taking chances as he rejoins baseball after a decade in the NFL as the Cleveland Browns’ chief strategy officer. He intends to explore every option in an effort to fix a franchise that’s lost more than 100 games in three straight seasons. His boss, owner Dick Monfort, put it in baseball vernacular, too.

“We’ve taken big swings before. Paul’s taking big swings before,” Monfort s

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