The Los Angeles Dodgers made wholesale changes to their front office after the 2014 season by hiring Andrew Friedman to be president of baseball operations and Farhan Zaidi to be their general manager.
Friedman was widely recognized as being one of the bright young minds in baseball for the success he reached as the executive vice president of baseball operations and general manager of the Tampa Bay Rays, who are one of the small-market teams in the league that consistently have one of the lowest payrolls but still find a way to compete.
Coming over to the big-market Dodgers who were just purchased by new owners dedicated to bringing the first World Series championship to Los Angeles since 1988 was a big change for Friedman.