DODGERS The FRONT OFFICE (NERDS) Thread

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  1. LASports96

    LASports96 DSP Legend

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    This.Is.Awesome

    our front office is amazing!
     
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    doyerfan MODERATOR Staff Member Moderator

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    This is amazing to me. Props to Stan Kasten for orchestrating this

    I thought it was gonna take a lot to be excited about the Dodgers for 2015 but this is impressive and makes me excited for the next decade of baseball
     
  3. chris

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    fuck yesssssss
     
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    between all of these minds, they better be able to find a manager should Mattingly continue his fuckery
     
  5. Shaw

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    Awesome pick up. Gotta love the young smart guys they're bringing in to manage the club
     
  6. chris

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    Don't mess with the Farhan. @irish please make a sig for me lol
     
  7. DodgerLove

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    Unbelievable. Way too stoked on this!
     
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    Name sounds a bit exotic for my liking. GM's are uncharismatic middle aged white guys, like the Cardinals.
     
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    This dude is my age and seeing his resume makes me sad. Another scotch neat please...

    Sigh....
     
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    So... Which one is the 7th inning guy and which one is the 8th inning guy?

    Or is one our new 4th starter while the other will be our new set up guy?

    Sorry. The only thing exciting about the front office moves is Ned being removed from his position.

    Players win games with the leadership of a good manager.

    So that said. Let's sit black an wait to see what transpires this winter.

    And let's hope our new front office can put together a team capable of winning inspite of our idiot manager.

    Here's to our new front office. Prepping for a 2016 World Series run. The first year after the Donnie Dum Dum era.

    Oh shit. The Giants win it in even years.

    Here's to 2017!

    GO BLUE!
     
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    next year is an odd year...
     
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    irish DSP Staff Member Administrator

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    @chrisdodgers a farhan smiley, or a smiley of you jizzing about his hiring?
     
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    Dodgers hire Farhan Zaidi as GM
    Updated: November 5, 2014, 12:18 AM ET
    By Mark Saxon | ESPNLosAngeles.com

    LOS ANGELES -- The Los Angeles Dodgers will name Oakland Athletics assistant GM Farhan Zaidi, a Berkeley-educated economist, as their next GM, baseball sources confirmed to ESPNLosAngeles.com Tuesday night.

    The news will be officially announced later this week.

    New Dodgers president of baseball operations Andrew Friedman has taken his time assembling his front office since he was hired on Oct. 15, but it appears to be coming together in time for the GM meetings next week in Phoenix, the unofficial kickoff to the hot stove season.

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    According to sources, former San Diego Padres general manager Josh Byrnes will also be part of the mix, likely as a scouting director.

    The Dodgers have also been linked to San Diego executive Billy Gasparino and, according to sources, they have had talks with one of San Diego's most prominent scouts, Jeff Pickler, a close associate of Byrnes', for a front office position.

    The Dodgers' acquisition of Zaidi was earlier reported by MLB.com.

    According to a profile in the San Francisco Chronicle, Zaidi grew up in the Phillipines, attended MIT as an undergraduate and, after getting his doctorate at UC Berkeley, decided to try to break into baseball after reading the Michael Lewis bestseller, "Moneyball."

    He eventually landed with the A's under GM Billy Beane -- the protagonist of that book as well as the movie based on it -- and worked his way up to become the team's assistant general manager for baseball operations.

    "He's absolutely brilliant," Beane said in the Chronicle story. "He has a great qualitative mind, but also a creative mind. The ability to look at things both micro and macro is unique and Farhan could do whatever he wants to do, not just in this game, but in any sport or business. I'm more worried about losing him to Apple or Google than I am to another team."

    Zaidi is one of the few Muslims in Major League Baseball.

    Friedman has vowed to assemble a diverse group of executives and scouts, but it certainly appears to be skewing heavily toward the analytics side of the game and away from old-school scouting.

    Dodgers scouting director Logan White left the team last week to join the Padres. Farm director De Jon Watson had left the team before Friedman arrived to work with Dave Stewart, the new GM of the Arizona Diamondbacks.

    The Dodgers have also had talks with former player Gabe Kapler about a front office position. Kapler played for Friedman at Tampa Bay.

    Ned Colletti was reassigned from general manager to special assistant to team president Stan Kasten. Two of Colletti's top aides, Rick Ragazzo and Vance Lovelace, remain with the organization, but -- according to sources -- have been marginalized.

    The Dodgers are trying to compete without having to stretch their payroll to the record lengths it reached this season, $240 million, by emphasizing scouting and player development.

    In early February, the A's promoted Zaidi to assistant GM and director of baseball operations. He earned his bachelor's degree in economics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1998 and a PhD in economics from the University of California at Berkeley in 2011.

    Zaidi has handled a big load on Beane's staff, including playing a key role in the acquisition of Cuban slugger and outfielder Yoenis Cespedes before the 2012 season. Cespedes, the two-time reigning Home Run Derby champion, was traded to Boston for left-hander Jon Lester at the July 31 trade deadline. The A's, who won the AL West in 2012 and '13, lost in the one-game wild-card playoff to World Series runner-up Kansas City.

    Los Angeles won the NL West for the second straight season before losing the NL Division Series in four games to St. Louis.

    With the A's, Zaidi's areas of expertise included providing statistical analysis for evaluating and targeting players in the amateur draft, free agent and trade markets. He also worked on arbitration cases, minor league contracts and worked closely with coaches to analyze data from advance scouting reports.

    Zaidi previously served as business development associate for Small World Media, the fantasy sports division of The Sporting News, and also worked as a management consultant for the Boston Consulting Group.

    Information from ESPN.com senior writer Jerry Crasnick and The Associated Press was used in this report.
     
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    He's Canadian and he went to college in Massachusettes. How much whiter do you want him to be?
     
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    Involved in the Cespedes deal and very smart individual do not belong in the same sentence.
     
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    Slow his head shake down, oh yeah ;)
     
  18. N.Z

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    I want him named Chad. I want him to deer hunt in the offseason. I want him to have a few "brewski's" with the boys. I want him wearing khaki pants tucked into his collared shirt. I want him with a sub 10 golf handicap.

    That white.
     
  19. SC_Ed

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    ...show me...
     
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    I instantly hate him and request he be fired now.

    I will hate this guy more than Rosie odonnell hates common sense, more than obama hates good decisions and more than democrats hate sound economy policies.

    :)

    Yeah spiking the football.
     
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