Paul DePodesta was depicted as the stat nerd in the book "Moneyball". He was the guy who would sit behind Billy Beane looking up stats on his stat finder and reciting those stats over to Beane for final approval. He was to be the next great GM and so was hired by the Los Angelas Dodgers to drive them into the groud...errrr...bring them back to prominence in a cost efficient way. He did get his economics degree from Harvard, what could possibly go wrong?
He turned out to be no Billy Beane, not even close for that matter. One of his major problems can be summarized in his last blog post, yes he has a blog for some reason. Being apart of the San Diego Padres front office, he commented on the teams recent signing of none other than David 'MVP' Eckstein. Paul speaks very highly of Eckstein's grindiness. I mean he has the dirtiest uniform in sports, you cant even clean it cause it's so dirty. Cause he grinds. And he wins championships all by himself, well him and his grindiness that is.
I forgot about DePodesta. I am surprised Billy Beane didn't take him back in Oakland. DePodesta's guy when he was in Oakland was Frost, who is still with Beane in DePodesta old role as assistant GM. What is DePodesta's title with the Padres?
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