The Los Angeles Dodgers announced the hiring of Farhan Zaidi as general manager and Josh Byrnes as senior vice president of baseball operations on Thursday.
Zaidi spent the past 10 seasons in the Oakland Athletics organization, most recently serving as the club's assistant general manager/director of baseball operations.
The 37-year-old becomes the 11th general manager in Dodgers' history and replaces Ned Colletti, who was reassigned to special assistant to the team president.
"It is very exciting for us to be able to add two exceptional, veteran baseball executives like Farhan and Josh," Los Angeles president of baseball operations Andrew Friedman said.
"Farhan's primary focus will be the major league team and player acquisitions while Josh will concentrate on the oversight of scouting and player development. However, they will both work closely with me on all aspects of baseball operations in our efforts to make the Dodgers' front office and team the best it can possibly be."
Prior to joining the Athletics in 2005 as a baseball operations analyst, Zaidi was a business development associate for Small World Media, which is the fantasy sports department of The Sporting News.
Zaidi, who has a Ph.D in economics from the University of California, Berkeley, also worked as a management consultant for the Boston Consulting Group.
Byrnes will supervise the Dodgers' scouting and player development after serving as executive vice president/general manager for the Diamondbacks (Oct. 2005-July 2010) and the Padres (Oct. 2011-June 2014).
[SportsNetwork.com]
