Source: www.ohio.com --- Tuesday, January 05, 2016
A strong commitment to analytics led the Browns to lure longtime Baseball executive Paul DePodesta of Moneyball fame away from the New York Mets and place him in a heavy hitter’s role within their Harvard-flavored front office. The Browns named DePodesta their chief strategy officer on Tuesday, less than 48 hours after they announced owner Jimmy Haslam had fired coach Mike Pettine and General Manager Ray Farmer. DePodesta will help oversee all areas of the franchise’s football side, including the player personnel, player development, high performance and analytics departments. DePodesta, 43, a noted analytics — the systematic computational analysis of data or statistics — expert with a degree in economics from Harvard, will report directly to Haslam as will new executive vice president of football operations Sashi Brown, a Harvard Law School graduate promoted Sunday from executive vice president/general counsel and given final say on the 53-man roster. DePodesta will join Haslam, wife Dee, Brown and consultant Jed Hughes as the Browns interview candidates for head coach and general manager. Their first order of business is to hire a coach, who’ll control the game-day roster and report to Haslam. The coach will assist the search committee in hiring a GM, who’ll focus on talent acquisition and report to Brown. “We are fortunate to bring in Paul, an extremely talented, highly respected sports executive who will add a critical dimensi ...
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