Andrew Friedman is the President of Baseball Operations of the Los Angeles Dodgers of Major League Baseball. He previously served as the general manager for MLB’s Tampa Bay Rays, where Sporting News named him Executive of the Year in 2008. His contract with the Dodgers was reported at USD 35 million for five years, making him the highest-paid front-office executive in baseball. His father J. Kent Friedman, a lawyer played college baseball for Tulane.
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Andrew Friedman is the President of Baseball Operations of the Los Angeles Dodgers of Major League Baseball. He previously served as the general manager for MLB’s Tampa Bay Rays, where Sporting News named him Executive of the Year in 2008. Friedman and the Dodgers have won a World Series, three pennants, and six division titles since taking the job after the 2014 season. His contract with the Dodgers was reported at USD 35 million for five years, making him the highest-paid front-office executive in baseball. He and his wife, Robin, live in Pasadena, California, with their three children. Friedman was born in Houston and is Jewish. His father J. Kent Friedman, a lawyer played college baseball for Tulane. Friedman attended and played baseball as a center fielder and leadoff hitter for Episcopal High School in Houston. He subsequently attended Tulane University on a baseball scholarship where he played center field for the Green Wave but was hit by a pitch that broke his left hand in the fall of his freshman year, and then after returning from that injury the following year separated his left shoulder while sliding headfirst into third base.
He earned a B. S. in management with a concentration in finance at Tulane’s Freeman School of Business in 1999. He was next an analyst with Bear Stearns from 1999–2002. He then was an associate at MidMark Capital, a private equity firm from 2002-04. In 2003, Friedman met Stuart Sternberg, the new owner of the Rays, and they realized they had similar ideas about the game and wanted to work together. From 2004 to 2005, Friedman served as the Director of Baseball Development for the Rays. In 2005, he was promoted to the position of Executive Vice President of baseball Operations and General Manager after the 2005 season, at the age of 28, replacing the club’s first general manager, Chuck LaMar, who was fired. In 2008, the Rays made the postseason for the first time in franchise history, and advanced all the way to the World Series. They also made the playoffs in 2010, 2011 and 2013 under his tenure.
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