The A's were a team with very few resources. We didn't have access to players who were obviously great, who could do it all and were always in the headlines. We couldn't afford those types of players. So we had… — Paul DePodesta Copy Share Image
We have to make judgments on the individual players and we're not always going to be right. — Paul DePodesta Copy Share Image
Scouts, by and large, are very industrious, very passionate and very loyal guys. — Paul DePodesta Copy Share Image
I think there are definitely things over the last year-and-a-half we would have done differently, ... I think we've at least learned as we… — Paul DePodesta Copy Share Image
Baseball ultimately is a drama without a script. It's the original reality TV. — Paul DePodesta Copy Share Image
There are a lot of parallels between being a mutual fund manager and being a general manager. Both in the financial markets and in… — Paul DePodesta Copy Share Image
There probably isn't another position in all of team sports that I can think of that has the same level of import as the… — Paul DePodesta Copy Share Image
Even teams that win 110 games have stretches when they don't play well. — Paul DePodesta Copy Share Image
Whether baseball or football, we're tasked in front offices with making decisions under uncertainty. How do you corral that uncertainty in a way to… — Paul DePodesta Copy Share Image
The nice thing about baseball is that all of the possible outcomes are known - it's not quite as messy as the real world.… — Paul DePodesta Copy Share Image
Circumstances change and you have to be proactive about changing with those circumstances. — Paul DePodesta Copy Share Image
I played football in college and what I really wanted to do was be a football coach. — Paul DePodesta Copy Share Image
Are there things you can do with the rest of your personnel or are things you can do schematically to help a quarterback? I… — Paul DePodesta Copy Share Image
