Paul DePodesta
Paul DePodesta
Paul DePodestais the chief strategy officer for the Cleveland Browns of the National Football League. Formerly a front office assistant for the Cleveland Indians, Oakland Athletics and most recently the New York Mets, he was also general manager of the Los Angeles Dodgers. The year after leading the Dodgers to their first playoff win in 16 years, he was fired after the 2005 club finished with its worst record in 11 years. He was the ninth general manager in the...
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Jim Tracy has been a passionate and valued member of the Dodger organization. I have an extremely high regard for him professionally and personally,
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It became clear to us that the inefficiency in decision-making in baseball was vast.
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He recovered well from each of the first two surgeries, but it's hard to predict exactly how long it's going to take -- especially with the upcoming surgery. So I think he still has a long road in front of him.
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He's a guy I've been interested in sitting down with for a while, ... We considered him for farm director position last year and he is a potential rising star in the game.
family far realized thinking
He has family there in Georgia, and after really thinking about it, he realized he couldn't be this far away from home.
preferable
We're probably going to have to play it by ear. That's not necessarily the preferable way to go. But it's not something where we have a choice.
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He's been exactly what we hoped for. He's given us over 200 innings and taken the ball every fifth day and has the lowest ERA of any of our starters. We definitely view him as a lynch-pin to our rotation going forward.
absolutely bringing interest
I absolutely would have interest in bringing them back,
strict time
I don't think we know that yet. We're not under any kind of strict time constraint.
respect
out of respect for what he's done here.
conference discussion sometime
We'd still be having this discussion (on the conference call) sometime this month.
absolutely interest
I would absolutely have interest in re-signing each guy.
reason
We just couldn't get on the same page. That's really the only reason why.
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We'll always have to make changes -- a guy or two will be a free agent -- but, hopefully, the foundation is now laid.