DENVER -- When new Rockies president of baseball operations Paul DePodesta was working in the front office of the NFL’s Cleveland Browns but considering a return to baseball, he thought he would seek the help of an old colleague from his earlier baseball life, Josh Byrnes.

The pair that started their baseball operations careers together with Cleveland in the late 1990s was reunited this week, with Byrnes becoming the Rockies’ new general manager. But as Byrnes noted, this is not to “tell old stories about what we’ve done,” but to correct an organization whose story is one of struggle -- seven straight losing seasons, including a league-worst 43-119 record in 2025.

Byrnes comes with the credibility of working for four World Series champions, the Red Sox in 2004 and the Dodgers in 2020, 20

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