Paul DePodesta

I mean, I could try to defend the last two drafts.

Can I put any of the blame on DePodesta, though, Walter? Can I? Can I please scapegoat Paul DePodesta, please? I

used to be able to do that myself, Ken.

What?

Because when you have such a drastic, drastic pendulum change when it comes to power, of course, then Paul and Andrew felt they needed to put it in there.

Now, didn't they? I'm glad that you've come around to now

defending Paul DePodesta.

Way to go, Ken.

He's hitting g- good against lefties, whereas Zach Veen I think probably has more potential than Jordan Beck, but he hasn't shown it yet.

How do you, if you're Warren Schaefer or Paul DePodesta and Josh Byrnes, how do you handle this in the off-season? Do you DFA Jordan Beck and you commit to Zach Veen, essentially putting your cards in and say, or, you know, pushing your chips in and saying, "We're going all in on Veen"? Do you keep both of them and you just have extra depth in the outfield, which feels unnecessary? Or do you say, "You know what? We're gonna put Veen back in the minors and we're gonna kinda do 2026 all over again.

He's gonna probably ball out in the minors.

Fans are gonna call for him to be called up, and then Jordan Beck's gonna struggle, and then he's gonna get called up, and then he's gonna struggle." Like, are, are we gonna do this whole cycle again? Like, how do we handle that actually?

... has put them in the spot.

I mean, they have Paul DePodesta.

He's in his first year.

He, he loves FT, by the way.

I mean, like I said, I have it on good authority that they're already taking meetings, basically doing their due diligence on this Rockies front office.

Who is Paul DePodesta? Who is Josh Burns? How do they operate? Walker Monfort.

Now, I do think just by the way, Walker Monfort.

will keep his job.

We let DJ LeMayhew walk.

All of those things were people who weren't baseball people making bad baseball decisions.

Now, this year has been different because Josh Burns and Paul DePodesta and Tommy Tanis and Ian Levin and Matt Daniels and all of these other guys are baseball guys from outside the organization that they brought in.

But I can understand where people say, well, if the Monforts are gone, that means we have a chance at winning.

Do you like that, Aaron? Is that...

I think that the guy who started all of this was the guy who was actually played by Jonah Hill in Moneyball, Paul DePodesta, who got hired by the Cleveland Browns back in the day and kind of ran them right into the – even more that you could run the Cleveland Browns into a dumpster fire there.

Do you like guys navigating between sports? that are executives? Because it does feel like you know the specifics of one sport.

Why should you be trusted to know how to evaluate and scout and be able to get players into a completely different sport?