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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Unless everything is lined up, we'd be perfectly happy not doing it.
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We feel comfortable we've addressed what's happened the last few days internally.
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We've spent a lot of time together lately, ... The goal was to become very comfortable with the direction we are going. Although creative conflict is healthy, it is critical to our vision for the GM/manger dynamic to have enough consistent elements to move forward.
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The fact of the matter is, it was coming,
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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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We'd still be having this discussion (on the conference call) sometime this month.