The Rockies are expected to hire longtime baseball and football executive Paul DePodesta as their new head of baseball operations, a source told MLB.com’s Thomas Harding. The club has not confirmed the news.
DePodesta was most recently the chief strategy officer of the Cleveland Browns. Before that, he held positions in the front offices of the Guardians, Mets and A’s, where he was a big part of the Billy Beane Moneyball Era teams. DePodesta was portrayed by Jonah Hill in the movie adaptation of Michael Lewis’ book about those years of A’s baseball.
The position to head Colorado’s baseball operations opened up when general manager Bill Schmidt stepped down at the beginning of October.
“We’re looking for someone that can come in here, put their eyes on our operation, compare it to operations that have been successful elsewhere around Major League Baseball and help us architect an operation that can reinvent the way we go about things in order to narrow the gap,” Walker Monfort, who will take over as executive vice president in January but operated as a key figure in the search for a new baseball operations leader, said recently.
The Rockies are coming off three straight seasons of 100-plus losses, including a Majors-worst 43-119 performance in 2025. DePodesta would be their fifth leader of baseball operations in a history that began with original GM Bob Gebhard in 1992, a year before the expansion club took the field.
