PHOENIX — A well-known face is returning to the Dodgers’ entrance workplace.
On Monday, the membership introduced again former normal supervisor Farhan Zaidi in a particular advisor position, in response to an individual with information of the scenario who wasn’t approved to talk publicly. In his new place, Zaidi can even help workforce proprietor and chairman Mark Walter within the businessman’s different sports activities pursuits.
Zaidi, 48, previously served because the workforce’s first normal supervisor underneath president of baseball operations Andrew Friedman from 2015 to 2018. Throughout that point, he helped construct Dodgers rosters that gained 4 division titles and two Nationwide League pennants, the membership’s first since 1988; and aided within the acquisition of a number of surprising stars, equivalent to Max Muncy and Chris Taylor.
After the 2018 season, Zaidi was employed by the San Francisco Giants to turn into their president of baseball operations. Three years later, after the Giants gained 107 video games to outlast the Dodgers for the 2021 NL West championship, Zaidi was named MLB’s Government of the Yr, overseeing what seemed like a possible powerhouse within the making within the Bay Space.
Nonetheless, the Giants by no means returned to the playoffs in Zaidi’s tenure, going .500 or worse in every of the final three years whereas repeatedly lacking out on a number of sweepstakes for celebrity gamers (together with as one among three runners-up to the Dodgers for Shohei Ohtani final winter).
After the Giants stumbled to an 80-82 file this yr, lacking a wild-card playoff spot by 9 video games, the franchise changed Zaidi with longtime former catcher Buster Posey on the helm of its baseball operations division. Shortly after, as Zaidi instructed Foul Territory in December, he started discussing new job alternatives with the Dodgers and different groups. All alongside, a reunion along with his former membership appeared logical.
Whereas the Dodgers have since stuffed Zaidi’s void at GM with Brandon Gomes, Zaidi will tackle a brand new position in Los Angeles now that features nearer coordination with Walter — who can be the proprietor of the Los Angeles Sparks, the Skilled Girls’s Hockey League and was a part of Dodger co-owner Todd Boehly’s buy of Premier League soccer membership Chelsea in 2022.