coming off the successes of 2004, the 2005 season saw the dodgers lose a number of players to significant stints on the disabled list. many of the players lost to injury were expected to produce heavily for the team, including j. d. drew, milton bradley, éric gagné, jayson werth, césar izturis and odalis pérez. the 2005 season resulted in the team's worst record since 1992 and second worst since moving to los angeles in 1958. on october 29, 2005, dodgers owner frank mccourt fired depodesta, citing his desire to see the club win and that depodesta had not met those expectations. reports surfaced that the real reason mccourt had fired depodesta was his inability to find satisfactory managerial candidates to replace jim tracy. he was later replaced by ned colletti, who hired grady little as manager. some have speculated that mccourt fired depodesta in response to media criticism from "los angeles times" sports columnists t.j. simers and bill plaschke, who were vehemently "anti-moneyball" and referred to depodesta pejoratively as "google boy."