GLENDALE, Ariz. — The Dodgers are bringing again former govt Farhan Zaidi as a particular advisor to the workforce, a membership spokesman has confirmed. Zaidi will even help chairman Mark Walter along with his different sports activities pursuits, which embrace the Los Angeles Sparks, Chelsea Soccer Membership and the Skilled Ladies’s Hockey League.
Zaidi, 48, was the Dodgers’ common supervisor from 2014-18, working beneath Andrew Friedman earlier than leaving to change into the rival Giants’ president of baseball operations. Zaidi led San Francisco’s baseball operations division for six seasons earlier than he was dismissed final September.
Zaidi acquired MLB’s Govt of the Yr Award in 2021, when the Giants received a franchise-record 107 video games to take down the Dodgers within the Nationwide League West. That season is the one one prior to now 12 years {that a} workforce apart from Los Angeles received the division.
Except for that 12 months, although, Zaidi’s tenure with the Giants was largely underwhelming, resulting in his dismissal after three middling seasons.
Throughout Zaidi’s first stint with L.A., the Dodgers received the NL West in 4 consecutive seasons. Additionally they ended their 29-year drought of World Sequence appearances with back-to-back NL pennants in 2017-18.