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Baseball player
David Lee Forst (born May 18, 1976) is an American
baseball executive with the
Oakland Athletics of
Major League Baseball . He is the
general manager of the Athletics.
Early and personal life
Forst was born in
Santa Monica, California , and raised in
Encino, California .
[1]
[2] He attended
Brentwood School in
Brentwood, Los Angeles .
[3] Forst's wife is Rebe Glass, a lawyer with the San Francisco law firm Cooley Godward Kronish.
[4] Glass and Forst met at Harvard, where Glass was captain of the soccer team and a member of the 1997 All-Ivy Team, Second Team.
[4]
[5] They have a son (Judah) and a daughter (Sasha), and live in
Berkeley, California .
[6]
College
Forst attended
Harvard University , where he played
college baseball for the
Harvard Crimson . Forst was the Crimson's starting
shortstop and team
captain , and in his senior year he batted .406/.437/.624, while setting a school record with 67 hits.
[7]
[8]
[4] He was named an All-America third-team shortstop.
[9] He graduated
cum laude with a
bachelor's degree in
sociology from Harvard in 1998.
[10]
[11]
Playing career
Forst attended
spring training with the
Boston Red Sox of
Major League Baseball (MLB) in 1999.
[12] He played for the
Springfield Capitals of the
independent
Frontier League in 1998 (batting .280/.350/.320; playing primarily third base) and 1999 (batting .294/.362/.376; playing primarily shortstop).
[13]
[2]
Front office career
In 2000, Forst sent his résumé to MLB teams and was hired by the
Oakland Athletics as a
scout .
[12]
[14] He became the Athletics' assistant general manager in 2004, succeeding
Paul DePodesta .
[10] He turned down opportunities to interview for the general manager position with the
Seattle Mariners and
San Diego Padres .
[11]
[15] After the 2015 season, the Athletics announced that, with
Billy Beane being promoted to executive vice president of baseball operations, Forst would be promoted to general manager.
[16]
References
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"Q&A with David Forst" . Major League Baseball . Archived from
the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved September 16, 2015 .
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b
David Forst Independent Leagues Statistics & History | Baseball-Reference.com
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"It's Academic for Forst Until June Graduation" . latimes . Retrieved September 16, 2015 .
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b
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Ascent of A's latest whiz began at lowest level - SFGate
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Rebe Glass
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Executive Bio | Oakland Athletics
^ Sam Mamudi.
"Harvard teammates rising as MLB executives" . MarketWatch . Retrieved September 16, 2015 .
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David Forst Baseball Statistics [1998-1999]
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"MLB Update: Harvard Baseball in the Front Office - Harvard" . Archived from
the original on March 8, 2017. Retrieved March 7, 2017 .
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b
"A's name David Forst assistant General Manager - Oakland Athletics" . Oakland Athletics . Archived from
the original on December 8, 2015. Retrieved September 16, 2015 .
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a
b Los Angeles Times (August 21, 2014).
"There's a lot of brains behind the scenes of the Oakland Athletics" . latimes.com . Retrieved September 16, 2015 .
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a
b
Lewis, Michael (2003).
Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game . W. W. Norton & Company. p.
139 .
ISBN
978-0-393-05765-2 .
^ Ben McGrath (September 26, 2011).
"Nerdball" . The New Yorker . Retrieved September 16, 2015 .
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"Forst Settles in as Assistant GM for A's" . thecrimson.com . Retrieved September 16, 2015 .
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"Forst won't be an option in Seattle" . Oakland Athletics: The Drumbeat . Retrieved September 16, 2015 .
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"A's announce front office promotions for Beane, Forst" . CSN Bay Area . Archived from
the original on October 7, 2015. Retrieved October 5, 2015 .
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