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...Woodfork, who spent the last two years working with contracts for Major League Baseball, will bring that financial expertise to his new position with the Sox. He will also be able to dip his feet into player personnel, an area in which he has less experience...
...It’ll help me to diversify a bit,” Woodfork said. “I’ll be assisting player development people, helping to develop talent and learning whatever...
...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...
...definitely have spoken to a lot of them, but more in the course of day-to-day baseball work,” Woodfork said of the alumni network. “I’m friendly with all of them, but Dave is really the one I’m closest to as a friend...
...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...