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FULLERTON, Calif.—It was a thoughtful if rather perfunctory visit—it’s not often that Harvard baseball scrapes out a series in Southern California, after all—but perhaps Los Angeles Dodgers GM Paul DePodesta ’95 was really on to something...
...He’s actually a pretty cool guy,” said junior right fielder Lance Salsgiver of DePodesta. “He told us the anecdote about how when he played football for three years, he was one of the smallest players in the league...
...DePodesta and Epstein quickly became the poster boys for this new-age approach to baseball. Both have demonstrated the effectiveness of using in-depth statistics in conjunction with traditional player evaluation methods, such as scouting...
...Smith and Noffsinger, both still in the first few chapters of their baseball odysseys, hope to follow in the footsteps of DePodesta, Epstein, and Shapiro as Ivy League graduates running a team...
Hill, meanwhile, worked his way into baseball operations after playing for three years in the minor leagues. He now stands just a step away from joining DePodesta as Harvard alums as general managers...