The Giants have their “next-gen” executive.
Dodgers general manager Farhan Zaidi, who came up through the ranks with the A’s, has accepcted the Giants’ offer to head their baseball operations department, The Chronicle learned Tuesday night.
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Zaidi, who turns 42 Sunday has been the Dodgers’ GM under president of baseball operations Andrew Friedman for the past four seasons. They won the National League West all four years after they had taken division titles the prior two years under then-GM and onetime Giants assistant Ned Colletti.
In Oakland and Los Angeles, Zaidi developed a reputation as a brilliant numbers guy who also respected scouts and their work, a combination that helped him land the general manager’s job in Los Angeles when Friedman was hired away from Tampa Bay to be the Dodgers’ president of baseball operations after the 2014 season.