Out of this World Ohlendorf

I just read an article on the Mothership's website by Tim Kurkjian featuring Pirates pitcher Ross Ohlendorf and his vast amount of intelligence. Ohlendorf is a math wiz who graduated from Princeton and seeing the recent success of "number guys" as GMs in sports, most notably Billy Beane of the Oakland A's, I got to thinking, what are the odds that Ohlendorf becomes a major league GM? He obviously is a talented baseball player (he has a spot in the rotation for the AAA All-Stars aka the Pirates) so he knows the game, he's extremely smart and can use math to deduce things I can't even comprehend, and former athletes have been successful as GMs (sit down Isaiah Thomas), namely Beane. Unlike in basketball and football, where statistics have been created to allow mathematicians to understand very basic aspects of the game (are Mr. Hollinger and his nonsensical PER available right now?) stats are extremely important in baseball. Your ERA and batting average correctly exhibit the type of pitcher or hitter you are and your fielding percentage is error free (pun intended). Due to this, someone like Ohlendorf seems like he would be a great GM. Math is also essential when negociating a contract with a player, where the GM judge's the player's value to the team often measured through batting average, fielding percentage, OPS, or ERA coupled with the role the player will have on the team. Although the Pirates are only three games under .500, why not make Ohlendorf a player/GM for the rest of the season? I mean what do they have to lose? If the Pirates finish under .500 again this season then they've etched themselves a place in history as the only team to sell its best players at such a low rate over a long enough period of time that they have 17 consecutive losing seasons. If they finish over .500 they're seen as groundbreakers who took a chance on the smartest guy in the Bigs and made him a GM. It sounds like a win-win to me.