In 2008, a young baseball executive from Wall Street named Andrew Friedman led the Tampa Bay Rays — a team with the second-smallest payroll in Major League Baseball — to their first-ever World Series appearance. The team loaded in young talent eventually fell to the Philadelphia Phillies in five games.
Twelve years later, a lot has changed but so much has stayed the same. Friedman is now at the helm in Los Angeles but his former team’s success can be traced back to him.