SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- Paul DePodesta wandered through the Colorado Rockies' spring training complex on the morning of Feb. 12, the official start of his first season back in baseball, and took note of something: For every pitcher throwing, a coach stood beside him. DePodesta ended a decade-long run with the NFL's Cleveland Browns to become the Rockies' president of baseball operations in early November and has spent the past four months obsessing over ways to succeed at mile-high altitude. Building out an army of pitching coaches, the type that can provide as much individualized training as possible, is one of them. Empowering innovation, largely by assembling a more robust analytics department, is another. Just as important, he believes, is a change in mindset. DePodesta wants the Rockies to view playing baseball at 5,280 feet above sea level as an advantage, not a hindrance. Everything else should flow off that. "We need to embrace this," DePodesta said.…