On October 14th, 2014, the Dodgers announced the hiring of Andrew Friedman. Former Tampa Bay GM and Vice President of baseball operations as President of baseball operations for the Los Angeles Dodgers. His contract was for 5 years and 35 million dollars. Friedman was born in Houston Texas and attended Tulane University on a baseball scholarship.
His college career was derailed by a couple of injuries. He earned a B.A. in management from Tulane’s Freeman’s School of Business in 1999. He then went to work for Bear Stearns as an analyst until 2002. He then went to work for MidMark Capital, a private equity firm from 2002 to 2004.