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...Angeles Dodgers announced on Tuesday that they have hired Paul DePodesta ’95 as their new general manager...
...DePodesta has spent the past five years as the assistant to the Oakland Athletics’ GM Billy Bean, and was expected to take over for Bean in November 2002 when it seemed that Bean was going to become the new GM position for the Red Sox, but Bean changed his mind and stayed in Oakland...
...hiring of DePodesta was the first appointment made by Dodgers owner Frank McCourt, who recently bought the team from News Corp. for $430 million...
Woodfork, 26, becomes the latest young Ivy League alum to enter the executive ranks in the majors as he joins Epstein, who graduated from Yale in 1995. The growing list of recent Harvard baseball players includes Paul DePodesta ’95, a former JV player who is now the assistant general manager of the Oakland A’s, former captain Mike Hill ’93, who is now director of Player Development for the Colorado Rockies and David Forst ’98, who played alongside Woodfork in the infield and now works with DePodesta...
...have to be willing to take anything that's out there," DePodesta adds. "You can't worry about pay, position, anything. I remember when I got my first internship, and they told me I'd be working 60 hours a week. I thought to myself, 'You've gotta be kidding me!' But that's the way it is here. To work 300 straight days, from nine in the morning to midnight, from February on, you have to have a passion...