Andrew Friedman, Los Angeles Dodgers (Photo by Victor Decolongon/Getty Images)
“Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt.”-Fred Rogers (I’m kidding, it was Sun Tzu but…you thought it was Mr. Rogers for a second)
Los Angeles Dodgers President of Baseball Operations Andrew Friedman did not sit out the baseball trade deadline quietly. In one fell swoop, he may have turned the Dodgers season around, turned the NL West upside down, and once again grabbed the crown as the best executive in baseball.
When news broke that the San Diego Padres might acquire starting pitcher Max Scherzer from the Washington Nationals, Friedman pounced like a proto-Michael Corleone and “decided to settle all family business” reminding the rest of baseball where the power lies.