When Eric DeCosta’s wife was in labor with the couple’s daughter in 2003, he was in the waiting room reading “Moneyball.”
The book, which has since been made into a movie, is about Oakland Athletics General Manager Billy Beane’s outside-the-box use of analytics to make decisions.
“I thought this is really kind of revolutionary,” DeCosta said on “The Lounge” podcast. “How will this impact sports? What will be the impact on football moving forward?”
As DeCosta prepares to take over as the Ravens’ general manager in 2020, people are wondering how he’ll be different from Ozzie Newsome, the man who groomed him for the past 22 years.