LOS ANGELES, CA - The Los Angeles Dodgers has named Farhan Zaidi, a Canadian of Pakistani descent, as its new general manager. Zaidi has a bachelor’s degree in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Ph.D. in economics from U.C.-Berkeley. He has for the last decade worked in Major League Baseball for the Oakland Athletics baseball team, most recently as its assistant general manager and...
director of baseball operations. For the Athletics, Zaidi’s areas of expertise have included providing statistical analysis for evaluating and targeting players in the amateur draft, free agency and trade markets.
Zaidi reportedly looked to a career in baseball after reading Michael Lewis bestseller, “Moneyball,” which chronicled Beane’s management philosophy and was made into an award-winning movie starring Brad Pitt as Beane.
The hiring of Zaidi increases the ranks of South Asians involved in management and ownership in major sports in the U.S., including Indian Americans Paraag Marathe and Sunil Gulati — president of the San Francisco 49ers NFL team and president of the U.S. Soccer Federation, respectively — and Shahid Khan, the Pakistani American businessman and owner of the Jacksonville Jaguars NFL team.
Zaidi reportedly looked to a career in baseball after reading Michael Lewis bestseller, “Moneyball,” which chronicled Beane’s management philosophy and was made into an award-winning movie starring Brad Pitt as Beane.
The hiring of Zaidi increases the ranks of South Asians involved in management and ownership in major sports in the U.S., including Indian Americans Paraag Marathe and Sunil Gulati — president of the San Francisco 49ers NFL team and president of the U.S. Soccer Federation, respectively — and Shahid Khan, the Pakistani American businessman and owner of the Jacksonville Jaguars NFL team.
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