PHOENIX — Former San Francisco Giants president of baseball operations Farhan Zaidi is returning to the Los Angeles Dodgers’ front office, a league source told The Athletic on Monday.
Zaidi, who served as the Dodgers’ general manager from 2014 to 2018, will work as a special advisor in the organization, the source said. He will also assist Dodgers controlling owner Mark Walter with his other sports interests, which include the Los Angeles Lakers (where Walter holds a minority ownership stake), the Los Angeles Sparks, Chelsea Football Club and the Professional Women’s Hockey League.
The Athletic first reported in December that Zaidi had been in discussions with his former club on an undisclosed role after the Giants moved on from Zaidi after the 2024 season.
Zaidi had run the Giants’ baseball operations department since the end of the 2018 season, leading the only team to unseat the Dodgers’ decade-plus run of dominance in the National League West in 2021.
In Zaidi’s four seasons as Los Angeles’ general manager, the Dodgers won the division each season, clinched their first pennant in 29 years and found breakthroughs in young, ascending talents like Corey Seager and Cody Bellinger (both inherited from the previous regime) and Walker Buehler. They also unearthed early modern player development success stories, with Zaidi among those chiefly credited with the acquisitions of Max Muncy and Chris Taylor, both of which have now been part of the core of two World Series champion clubs in Los Angeles.
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