Jonah Hill in Moneyball as Peter Brand, a character inspired by Paul DePodesta, former assistant general manager of the Oakland Athletics.
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The statistics whiz who helped change the way baseball does business, as chronicled in Moneyball, now wants to do the same for medicine.
As assistant general manager for the Oakland Athletics from 1998 to 2004, Paul DePodesta approached the game with a data-crunching mindset that helped lead the cash-strapped team to the playoffs four times. Today, he’s vice president of player development and amateur scouting for the New York Mets — and soon, he announced Monday, he’ll be assistant professor of bioinformatics at Scripps Translation Science Institute.