Rockies’ Paul DePodesta on taking job with Colorado: ‘I’m a sucker for a challenge’

LAS VEGAS Paul DePodesta the newly hired architect of the Rockies rebuild has been mulling over his plans for more than a month That s when he had his first phone conversation with owner Dick Monfort about taking the job as the group s president of baseball operations Monday afternoon in a suite at the Cosmopolitan Hotel on the Vegas Strip the -year-old discussed why he pursued the job and also laid out a basic framework of his plan to try to reverse the fortunes of a company that lost more than games in three consecutive seasons including a -loss debacle in I ve used this phrase before but I m a bit of a sucker for a challenge DePodesta noted with a laugh The reality is that s usually the situation That s why these jobs become available I have been part of a rebuild a number of different times And I truly really enjoy it I love winning don t get me wrong that s ultimately where I want to get to but building that getting to the winning is incredibly gratifying So that was absolutely part of the attraction Rockies Journal Key questions for Paul DePodesta Colorado s new front-office boss This file is auto-generated function d l use strict l querySelector d addEventListener undefined typeof URL d wp d wp d wp receiveEmbedMessage d wp receiveEmbedMessage function e var t e content if t t secret t message t value a-zA-Z - test t secret for var s r n a l querySelectorAll 'iframe data-secret ' t secret ' ' o l querySelectorAll 'blockquote data-secret ' t secret ' ' c new RegExp https i i i