The Dodgers are in talks with Farhan Zaidi a few potential entrance workplace place, report Fabian Ardaya and Ken Rosenthal of the Athletic. Zaidi spent the final six seasons working baseball operations with the Giants. San Francisco fired him and tabbed Buster Posey as their new entrance workplace chief on the finish of the common season.
Zaidi is not any stranger to the L.A. group. He spent 4 seasons as Dodgers common supervisor between 2015-18. Zaidi was Andrew Friedman’s prime lieutenant throughout that run. He departed to take over baseball operations in San Francisco in the course of the 2018-19 offseason. Earlier than touchdown in L.A., he labored his method as much as assistant common supervisor within the A’s group underneath Billy Beane.
The 48-year-old’s tenure in San Francisco was combined. The Giants solely made the playoffs as soon as in Zaidi’s six years. That was a magical 2021 season that noticed San Francisco win 107 video games, narrowly topping the Dodgers for the NL West title. The Giants have primarily been a league common group within the three years since then. A lot of Zaidi’s tenure was outlined by a collection of close to misses of their pursuits of prime free brokers (i.e. Aaron Decide, Shohei Ohtani, Bryce Harper, Carlos Correa after his failed bodily).
Zaidi’s entrance workplace had a knack for growing unheralded targets into productive position gamers or strong regulars. They hit on low-cost acquisitions of Mike Yastrzemski, LaMonte Wade Jr. and Thairo Estrada, as an example. But the Giants hardly ever had the high-end expertise essential to compete with star-studded rosters in Los Angeles and San Diego. That continued even after San Francisco landed Blake Snell, Matt Chapman and Jorge Soler late final offseason.
Even when Zaidi’s tenure in San Francisco didn’t finish the way in which he’d envisioned, it’s unsurprising that the Dodgers are concerned about bringing him again. He’d convey greater than a decade of high-level expertise alongside together with his private connections to Friedman, GM Brandon Gomes, and senior vp of baseball operations Josh Byrnes.
