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Schmidt’s hiring is something of an old-school move, as teams have generally trended toward younger and more analytically inclined front office executives in recent years, rather than older, more established baseball lifers.
PHOENIX (AP) The Colorado Rockies made Bill Schmidt their permanent general manager on Saturday, promoting him from the interim GM spot he'd held since May. The Rockies were 74-85 when they made the announcement before playing at Arizona.