By Ken Rosenthal, Zac Jackson and Brittany Ghiroli
In a stunning career shift, Paul DePodesta soon will leave the Cleveland Browns to become the Colorado Rockies’ head of baseball operations, according to sources briefed on the move.
DePodesta, the analytics whiz depicted by Jonah Hill in the movie “Moneyball,” spent 10 often tumultuous seasons as the Browns’ chief strategy officer. The Browns are 56-99-1 since bringing on DePodesta, who was hired in Jan. 2016 with the franchise arguably in worse shape than it is now.
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The Rockies, who have endured seven straight losing seasons and finished 2025 with a major-league worst 43-119 record, were looking to hire a top baseball executive from outside their organization.
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