thesacrificebunt.com - 7/12/2008
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Baseball Prospectus hosted a fun little evening at PETCO on Friday, beach towel night. It featured a talk with San Diego Padres special assistant for baseball operations Paul DePodesta . Paul is famous as a central character in Michael Lewis’ renowned book “Moneyball”, in my opinion the Most Influencial Sports Book of all Time™. Paul is also the former GM of the Dodgers, ...
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Paul DePodesta as presented by Baseball Prospectus
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... The Sacrifice Bunt has the first write-up I've found on the DePodesta Baseball Prospectus event, or DePoBaPro as I've taken to calling it in my head. It's a lot of what we've heard before, though Paul continually presents it with great analogies and metaphors to help our understanding. Paul's like the Rosetta Stone. He's the GPS unit of baseball. ...
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NYT > Baseball 7/12/2008
SAN DIEGO (AP) -- Scott Hairston remained on a hot streak with a double and a triple to back Jake Peavy and help the San Diego Padres beat the Atlanta Braves 4-0 on Friday night. >
