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...announced the hiring of Peter Woodfork ’99 as its new director of Baseball Operations and assistant director of Player Development. Woodfork, just four springs removed from O’Donnell Field, will work primarily in the area of contracts alongside new Red Sox General Manager Theo Epstein...
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...
Woodfork got to know Epstein—who became the youngest GM in baseball history when he was hired at age 28—during his time at the league office, when Epstein was director of Baseball Operations for the San Diego Padres. Woodfork took his post around the time baseball reworked its collective bargaining agreement, which he now remembers as a “great opportunity” to get acquainted with the financial side of the game...
...Someone like Epstein will hire someone and err on the side of education and intelligence rather than having a traditional baseball background,” Habib said. “There’s isn’t necessarily a high emphasis on having a rolodex full of baseball contacts...
Returning from this regression, economists should converge on a growth theory resembling the forgotten discipline of political economy. They should discover the neglected economic insights behind de Soto’s analysis, like those of Friedrich Hayek, Richard Epstein and Peter Bauer...