MLB.com recently sat down with Forst in his office at Hohokam Stadium in Mesa, Ariz., to discuss what he learned as a player, the trade of Josh Donaldson, turning the club around after two difficult seasons, and, of course, "Moneyball."
MLB.com: You were a four-year starter at shortstop and team captain at Harvard. Was baseball always your No. 1 passion?
Forst: Yeah, it was. When I started looking at colleges, I was always going to go somewhere where I could play. I grew up on the West Coast, thought about Stanford being a great school, but they weren't interested in me for baseball and it kind of changed my choices.