Report: Rockies to hire Browns' DePodesta to run baseball ops
The Colorado Rockies will be hiring Paul DePodesta as their new head of baseball operations, sources told Ken Rosenthal, Zac Jackson, and Brittany Ghiroli of The Athletic.
DePodesta spent 10 seasons with the NFL's Cleveland Browns as their chief strategy officer. He was famously played by Jonah Hill in the movie "Moneyball" from his time with the Athletics between 1999 and 2003.
DePodesta will replace Bill Schmidt on a Rockies club that went an MLB-worst 43-119 in 2025 en route to missing the playoffs for a seventh straight season. The Browns had a 56-99-1 record with the 52-year-old as a member of their front office. He was part of the team during the contentious Deshaun Watson trade in March 2022, which subsequently resulted in the quarterback receiving a fully guaranteed five-year contract worth $230 million.
Colorado reportedly targeted Arizona Diamondbacks assistant general manager Amiel Sawdaye and Cleveland Guardians assistant GM Matt Forman for the role before moving on to DePodesta.
DePodesta also worked as the Los Angeles Dodgers general manager for 20 months after being hired in February 2004.