The best unemployed GM in baseball
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cghudson +1Quick! Somebody forward this article to Reds' owner Bob Castellini!!! -
notsellingjeans In the article I unintentionally inflated DePodesta's age by a decade, an indignity no grown man should have to suffer.
He was born December 16, 1972 and is 34, not 44.
I regret the error.
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Geoff Young Nice article, although I think DePodesta's current employer, the Padres, might have something to say about his "free agent" status. -
jza1218 "might've looked even better for the Dodgers had Hee Seop Choi not suffered injuries that derailed his career and ultimately headed back to Japan. "
Great article but just wanted to point out that Hee Seop Choi is Korean.
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studes The J.D. Drew deal has worked out well for the Dodgers so far, but it just as easily could have been a disaster. If Drew had been injured his second year, then he would have stayed with the Dodgers for the length of the contract. Also, the market might have slowed down after the year he was signed, making his contract an even bigger albatross.
An opt-out clause like that might make sense to me if a team is sure it doesn't want to participate in the market in the future, because it is anticipating a rise in revenue or some such thing, and it is also sure the player will do really well in his last year before the opt-out clause and he will go downhill after that. Attributing that insight to DePo seems like a real stretch to me. -
Master Batter Do you think DePodesta would take over a fiasco like the Pirates? Dave Littlefield HAS to be one of the 3 GM's who are worse than Paul DePodesta. -
backwoods Can someone please forward this to Bob Nutting?
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THT: Jackson: The best unemployed GM in baseball
Published 6/28/2007 at BBTF's Baseball Primer Newsblog
THT: Jackson: The best unemployed GM in baseball All is forgiven Murray Cook...oh, nuts...it s Paul DePodesta. The perception of DePodesta as a cold, dorky, numbers-cruncher was fueled, ironically, by the same beast that made him famous: Michael Lewis’ seminal classic Moneyball. In 2002, of course, DePodesta was still Beane’s right-hand man, and several of the scenes within the book reveal Beane holding court over his staff, with DePodesta hunkered down in a corner of the room, “finding players in his computer.” (A computer that told him Kevin Youkilis was one of the best prospects in baseball, incidentally.) Reputation is a huge factor in the public perception of GMs, and so are initial impressions. Make a good one, and you can ride through a lengthy period of decisions that turn out poorly (Brian Sabean). Make a bad one, and it’s almost impossible to recover. The fact is, much of the non-sabe ...
Hire DePodesta
Published 6/28/2007 by StatsGuru at Baseball Musings
Jacob Jackson makes a good case for some team hiring Paul DePodesta as their next GM . While I agree with that sentiment, I have two criticisms of the article: Jacob gives Paul too much credit for being able to see into the future: The opt-out clause in Drew's contract was probably more calculated and smart than anyone gave DePodesta credit for at the time. Critics howled when Drew's off-season opt-out left the Dodgers devoid of a starting right fielder last winter. Given the condition of Drew's shoulder, the Dodgers should feel relieved to be freed from the final three years of their commitment to him. Who's to say that DePodesta didn't forsee milking two productive years out of Drew during his peak, after which Scott Boras could be assured of leading Drew out of the contract and onto another team's hands during his post-age-30 decline? He's not that smart. DePodesta carries a huge negative, ...
The DePodesta Mistake In The Mirror
Published 6/28/2007 by Rob at 6-4-2 — an Angels/Dodgers double play blog
Jacob Jackson has a fine piece about Paul DePodesta's Dodger tenure at The Hardball Times, one I generally agree with except for this:
To be fair, Colletti, like DePodesta, presided over a playoff berth in his first season with the Dodgers last year, and his team currently stands at 43-33, just a half-game back of the pace-setting Padres. But he's also enjoyed an increase in team payroll and an obviously higher tolerance from ownership for mistakes than DePodesta enjoyed. A Colletti apologist might point to Schmidt's clean off-season MRI and say that blaming him for Schmidt is unfair. But Schmidt's uncharacteristically low velocity and poor performance in the second half of '06 were obviously better indicators than a clean off-season MRI.
That may be true, but he also had at hand trainer Stan Conte, freshly removed from the Giants, and who should have had a ver ...
Friday Morning Linkin Park
Published 6/29/2007 by Parkes at Drunk Jays Fans
... The Hardball Times asks how Paul Depodesta, formerly of the Dodgers, is not a GM somewhere else. ...
Friday Links (29 Jun 07)
Published 6/29/2007 by Geoff Young at Ducksnorts
... The best unemployed GM in baseball (Hardball Times). Jacob Jackson gives Paul DePodesta some love. I think calling him “the best free agent on the market” is probably a stretch given his presence in the Padres’ front office, but it’s a nice sentiment nonetheless. ...
Friday Links on 6/29
Published 6/29/2007 by Dan Agonistes at Dan Agonistes
... DePodesta - Interesting article at THT on the status of Paul DePodesta. ...
Paul DePodesta Legally Not Chatty About Dodgers
Published 5/16/2008 by Tuffy at SPORTSbyBROOKS
... and how viciously he was then railroaded out of town by the flighty McCourts , the lines are plenty spacious to read between: DePodesta signed a non-disclosure agreement and possibly got to keep some cash. That’s no fun, though. How will we know about the time he had to explain to Bill Plaschke that he can’t do his taxes on a Speak’n'Spell he got from a flea market? Or the time he buried a hooker in the desert to protect Lasorda ? Or the time scouting director nonpareil Logan White drafted a bunch of really good prospects for every subsequent GM to ignore or set fire ...
The M’s Make the Move
Published 6/17/2008 by Brian Waterman at Caffeinated Confines
... trading away or banishing a prospect after a brief major league failure.
Anyway, the sooner we can get him or someone else who knows how to acquire/deal with prospects the better. The trading deadline is right around the corner, we are out of contention, and we’ve got a lot of trade bait. A $117 million payroll can be cut down pretty quickly if we play our cards right, and I believe dePodesta is the one who can play them.
Note: After writing this article, I found this excellent 2007 article on “The Hardball Times.”