Choi went on to bat only. 161 for the remainder of the 2004 season with the Dodgers, leading many to blame the Dodgers ' sabermetrician general manager Paul DePodesta for making the trade.

When the New York Mets hired Sandy Alderson – Beane's predecessor and mentor with the A's – as their general manager after the 2010 season, and hired Beane's former associates Paul DePodesta and J. P. Ricciardi to the front office, the team became known as the " Moneyball Mets ".

* Paul DePodesta – Assistant GM

Actor Brad Pitt stars as Billy Beane, while Jonah Hill plays a fictional character based on Paul DePodesta ; Philip Seymour Hoffman plays A's manager, Art Howe.

His addition to Oakland was referred to as an ' experiment ' by A's assistant GM Paul DePodesta.

Re-signed by LA in December, Ventura entered with a chance to be the Dodgers ' starting first baseman, but that changed during the last week of spring training when new general manager Paul DePodesta traded for Cleveland outfielder Milton Bradley.

On December 8, 2005, after an organizational shakeup that resulted in the dismissal of both manager Jim Tracy and GM Paul DePodesta, the Los Angeles Dodgers turned to Little to be the team's 7th manager since its 1958 move to L. A. As manager of the Dodgers, Little was reunited with several players from the 2002 – 2003 Boston team, including pitcher Derek Lowe, third baseman Bill Mueller, and shortstop-turned-first baseman Nomar Garciaparra.

* Paul DePodesta, former GM, Los Angeles Dodgers

Shortly after purchasing the team, McCourt fired then General Manager Dan Evans, replacing him with Paul DePodesta.

In Los Angeles DePodesta made a blockbuster trade in the middle of the 2004 season: the Dodgers sent the team's starting catcher, Paul LoDuca, its set-up man, pitcher Guillermo Mota, and outfielder Juan Encarnacion to the Florida Marlins for the high on-base percentage first baseman Hee-Seop Choi and power pitcher Brad Penny and pitching prospect Bill Murphy, who was in turn flipped with Koyie Hill and Reggie Abercrombie to the Arizona Diamondbacks for Gold Glove center fielder Steve Finley and catcher Brent Mayne.

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Paul DePodesta ( born December 16, 1972 ) is the vice president of player development and scouting for the New York Mets.

Paul DePodesta is married and has three sons and a daughter.

* It Might Be Dangerous ... You Go First, a blog about the Padres written by Paul DePodesta

A key contested issue is the historicity of Luke's depiction of Paul.

This led the key figure in organizing the resistance, Paul Kruger, into conflict with the British.

Here, the apostle attempted to convey the underlying concepts about Christ to a Greek audience, and the sermon illustrates some key elements of future Christological discourses that were first brought forward by Paul.

For a time it appeared that, as Eastern Promises producer Paul Webster told Screen International, a sequel is in the works that would reunite the key team of Cronenberg, Steven Knight and Viggo Mortensen.

At the start of 1986, Essendon were considered unbackable for three successive flags, but a succession of injuries to key players Paul Van der Haar ( only fifteen games from 1986 to 1988 ), Tim Watson, Darren Williams, Roger Merrett and Simon Madden led the club to win only eight of its last eighteen games in 1986 and only nine games ( plus a draw with Geelong ) in 1987.

Other key figures in this movement were Humphrey Jennings, Paul Rotha and Alberto Cavalcanti.

Some key figures in the development of improvisational theatre are Avery Schreiber, Viola Spolin and her son Paul Sills, founder of Chicago's famed Second City troupe and originator of Theater Games, and Del Close, founder of ImprovOlympic ( along with Charna Halpern ) and creator of a longform improv format known as The Harold.

Though these games were wins, key players Byron Leftwich, Mike Peterson, Akin Ayodele, Paul Spicer, and Rashean Mathis were hurt during this stretch.

The teachings of Apostle Paul formed a key element of the Christian tradition and theology.

According to Roger Staubach, the Cowboys ' game plan was to neutralize the Dolphins ' key offensive and defensive players — Paul Warfield and Nick Buoniconti.

The key play was Griese's third-and-five, 27-yard pass to wide receiver Paul Warfield to the Minnesota 11-yard line.

In that season he was a member of what was referred to as the " Baby Bombers ", a group of young players ( most notably including Hird, Mark Mercuri, Gavin Wanganeen, Dustin Fletcher, Ricky Olarenshaw, David Calthorpe, Paul Hills and Joe Misiti ) that played a key role in the side winning the premiership that year.

With managers such as Jack Charlton and then Willie McFaul, Newcastle remained in the top-flight, until key players such as Waddle, Beardsley and Paul Gascoigne were sold, and the team was relegated once more at in 1989.

Paul George and Tyler Hansbrough, who many believe are two key pieces to the Pacers return to the playoffs, rarely got off the bench for the most of the 2010 season.

Paul Driver comments enthusiastically on the Colin Davis and London Symphony Orchestra performance of the Inextinguishable in May 2010: " Movement boundaries have become fluid ; the expressive raison d ’ être is an evolving structure articulated by its emotional necessities rather than an externally valid architecture ; and the journey from harmonic ambiguity at the opening to a stable key at the end is no mere vehicle for carrying ideas, but the whole point of the piece.

( Since Red River ox cart trains used in trading expeditions between Pembina and St. Paul, Minnesota included many family members and hunters in addition to the oxcart drivers, they tended to spread out across the prairie except at key fords and crossings.

The Colony provided facilities and inspiration to over 1500 artists, and produced performances by New York city based artists who resided there: Paul Zaloom, Charles Moore African Dancers, Sachiyo Ito Japanese Dance, Bread and Puppet Theatre, Eiko & Koma, Gail Conrad Tap Dance, the Chinese Acrobats of Taipei, the Brubecks, and many more, as well as the first US International Conference on Theatre Anthropology featuring key speakers Eugenio Barba, Richard Schechner, and Edith Turner.

Another key scripture used to support their belief is Acts 28: 1-6, which tells that Paul was bitten by a venomous viper and suffered no harm.

The colony was led by Admiral Paul Benden and Governor Emily Boll, who had both been key leaders in the war.

The reasons for this break are less clear and simple than those of the split with Austria, but there several key events occurred over the winter of 1799 – 1800 that helped: Bonaparte released 7, 000 captive Russian troops that Britain had refused to pay the ransom for ; Paul grew closer to the Scandinavian countries of Denmark and Sweden, whose claim to neutral shipping rights offended Britain ; Paul had the British ambassador in St. Petersburg recalled and Britain did not replace him, with no clear reason given as to why ; and Britain, needing to choose between their two allies, chose Austria, who had certainly committed to fighting Napoleon to the end.

In fact it is debated whether his original function was only that of god of gates and the function of god of harbours was a later addition: Paul the Deacon writes: "... he is depicted holding a key in his hand and was thought to be the god of gates ".

Other London-based bands included the Yardbirds ( who would number their ranks three key guitarists Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page ), the Kinks ( with the pioneer songwriter Ray Davies and rock-guitarist Dave Davies ) and, Manfred Mann ( considered to have one of the most authentic sounding vocalists in the scene in Paul Jones ) and the Pretty Things, beside the more jazz-influenced acts like the Graham Bond Organisation, Georgie Fame and Zoot Money.

Taylor cited drummers Paul Thompson of Roxy Music, Charlie Watts of the Rolling Stones and Tony Thompson of Chic as his key musical influences growing up.

Katczinsky was a cobbler in civilian life ; he is older than Paul Bäumer and his comrades, about 40 years old, and serves as their leadership figure.

* Paul Bunyan is a lumberjack figure in North American folklore and tradition.

The team was founded in the 1940s as a charter franchise in the All-America Football Conference ( AAFC ), with Paul Brown, the team's namesake and a pioneering figure in professional football, as its first coach.

The episode was often depicted ; notably, in the The Meeting of St Anthony Abbot and St Paul the Hermit by Stefano di Giovanni called " Sassetta ", of two episodic depictions in a single panel of the hermit Anthony's travel to greet the hermit Paul, one is his encounter along the pathway with the demonic figure of a centaur in a wood.

As a stylistic forerunner of Impressionism, he is today considered a " father figure not only to the Impressionists " but to all four of the major Post-Impressionists, including Georges Seurat, Paul Cézanne, Vincent van Gogh and Paul Gauguin.

Not numbered among the Twelve Apostles, unless he is identified as James the Less, James was nonetheless a very important figure: Paul described him as " the brother of the Lord " in Galatians 1: 19 and as one of the three " pillars of the Church " in 2: 9.

* 1948 – Paul Magee, Irish Republican Army figure

Paul Jackson Pollock ( January 28, 1912 – August 11, 1956 ), known as Jackson Pollock, was an influential American painter and a major figure in the abstract expressionist movement.

* Paul Martini ( born 1960 ), Canadian figure skater

Paul Bunyan is a lumberjack figure in North American folklore and tradition.

This late 5th or early 6th century Christian Greek author wrote under the pseudonym Dionysius the Areopagite, the figure converted by St. Paul in Athens.

Syria is significant in the history of Christianity ; Paul was converted on the Road to Damascus and emerged as a significant figure in the first organized Christian Church at Antioch in ancient Syria, from which he left on many of his missionary journeys.

* 1991 – Alexandra Paul, Canadian figure skater

After the death of Reclus as well as the main proponents of Le Play's ideas, and with Émile Durkheim turning away from his early concept of social morphology, Paul Vidal de la Blache, who noted that geography " is a science of places and not a science of men ", remained the most influential figure of French geography.

Pope John Paul II became the first leading religious figure to visit Tirana after Mother Teresa's visit few years ago.

The half dome of the central apse has a colossal half-length figure of Christ, with a seated Virgin and Child below ; the other apses have full-length figures of St Peter and St Paul.

As " Muad ' Dib ," Paul becomes the central figure of a new religion, and reluctantly unleashes a bloody jihad in his name across the universe ; Paul struggles with the potential idea of seizing divine control over his newly minted empire, only to finally escape from the burden of his destiny by placing it on his sister Alia and his offspring Leto II and Ghanima.

Giants figure in a great many fairy tales and folklore stories, such as Jack the Giant Killer, The Giant Who Had No Heart in His Body, Nix Nought Nothing, Robin Hood and the Prince of Aragon, Young Ronald, and Paul Bunyan.

Steinbrenner, a Cleveland-area native, had hired former Indians star Al Rosen as his team president ( replacing another Cleveland figure, Gabe Paul ).

Matsys was regarded as a cult figure during the 17th century in Antwerp in addition to being one of the founders of the local school of painting ( which climaxed with the career of Peter Paul Rubens ).