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Vandals Took The Handles
This should be one of the most interesting stories to follow in MLB over the next few years.
The question I have is what happened to Stan Kashan. He was president and part-owner. With Friedman as president, where does Stan go? If he’s been de-fanged, I’d guess there are at least a half-dozen franchises that should be standing in line to talk to him. His work in turning around the Braves, getting the Nationals off the ground as a high quality franchise, and re-establishing the Dodgers as a primer MLB franchise, has to be attractive to a lot of owners with under performing operations.
Jerry Ramos
Kasten is still the president AND ceo of the dodgers as a whole as well as a part owner
Friedman is the president of the newly formed position of baseball operations
He will be able to choose a gm to work under him just like epstein has done in chicago
Im pretty sure that friedman will make all the moves and have the gm negotiate the contracts and all that. We’ll basically have a puppet gm with friedman controlling everything
Based on his track record hanley is probably gone.
In a perfect world i hope mattingly is replaced, ethier is traded sign a starter and rebuild our bullpen
It seems maddon likes tampa but dave martinez is ready for a manager job maybe we can have him replace mattingly.
Maddon stays in tampa we bring in martinez everybody wins
Vandals Took The Handles
Had not thought about Dave Martinez coming.
Great point!
DippityDoo
Kasten still runs the Dodgers, while Friedman will handle the baseball side of the company.
jb226 2
I can’t speak to the Dodgers’ specific organization, but it’s not unusual to have multiple presidents. The Cubs, for example, have Theo Epstein as the President of Baseball Operations, while Crane Kenney is the President of Business Operations.
petrie000
Team President and ‘president of baseball operations’ are two entirely different posts. the ‘Team president’ oversees all aspects of the team as a corporate entity while the ‘president of baseball operations’, or ‘PBO’ has authority only over talent acquisition.
Kasten would still be in charge of the finances of the Dodgers as an whole, Friedman is just in charge of the drafting, minor league system, major league roster and other things directly related to the baseball part of it.
tesseract
the “president” is just a title so he can get paid more than a just a “gm”
Out in Left Field
1st job for Friedman, find a new manager.
LordD99 2
The “problem” with following a tighter spending model similar to the Red Sox might be results. Will the Dodgers tolerate two last place finishes and frankly three out of four seasons that are disappointing? The new owners of the Dodgers seem to want to win every year. That’s not possible if they follow the Red Sox model. The Dodgers have a huge beast to feed.
UpSide
“The Rays have had some rough drafts in recent years, resulting in a thin farm system” – this statement is very true and part of the problem was scouting a drafting bad characters who didnt apply themselves to the game. (i’m talking guys like Beckham & Sale)
Recently the higher round drafting of the Rays has been abuntandly wasteful and while Friedman has many strengths and brought alot of success to the Rays, this is a part of his legacy in Tampa and something Dodgers fans will need to be aware of.
CleaverGreene
LOL, Friedman’s a genius, a boy wonder, a miracle worker, yet, the Rays have had some bad drafts resulting in a thin farm system. Maybe, the Rays are glad to see him go.
Derpy
Just because you’re good at one thing doesn’t mean you’re good at everything. If I were the Dodgers, I would draw a clear line between Friedman and the amateur scouting department. Whatever GM I brought in would be an expert at amateur scouting and 100% in control of that area. Friedman can spend his time doing other things. Just because you’re an Admiral in the Navy doesn’t mean you can be the General of the Air Force.
dieharddodgerfan
Fortunately, for the Dodgers, Logan White is as good as it gets in heading up a scouting and development department. Now that he has full financial backing from ownership, he quickly has revamped the Dodgers’ farm system.
Lee Foo Young
Usually, the assistant or scouting director has the most input. The GM may make the first round pick, but after that, it is the Asst.
For instance, Neal Huntington has said more than once, that he has input on the first round picks, but trusts Roy Smith and his scouts after that.
So, these bad drafts for the Rays can’t be laid totally at the feet of Friedman.
UpSide
I will disagree as director of baseball operations everything falls under Friedmans remit and as such he is responsible for staffing in areas such as scouting.
If Neil Huntington didnt trust Roy Smith and his scouts then he is in a posistion to make a staffing change.
koufaxblue
Mr. Friedman please find us a Catcher among other priorities. AJ Ellis just doesn’t cut it.
Lee Foo Young
Russell Martin?
GreatHersh
AJ Ellis has the best avg in the playoffs, and the Dodgers were only in one round. Then he has a great partnership with the best pitcher in baseball. I think his maturity adds a great virtue to the team.
koufaxblue
This is about improving the team with an offensive Catcher. Ellis would be a good backup catcher and could be used when Kershaw pitches.
roberteye
Ellis is the least of the problems. Pitching pitching pitching. Of course it would be nice to have another Mike Piazza (his giveaway by Fox + McCourt was the beginning of the longggg Dodger malaise)
Curt Green
What phase is getting past the Cardinals in the playoffs?
dieharddodgerfan
It involves having a deep bullpen you can go to when your starting pitchers are getting tired. Dodgers lacked that in the postseason this year. Friedman is known for his ability to put together solid bullpens.
GreatHersh
We cannot keep blaming the bullpen. Yes, the teams that do the best in the playoffs usually have great and deep bullpens, but we need discipline. Kershaw is a great player, and maybe he wanted to alleviate
Mattingly having to go to a weaker bullpen, but he is still a man and in the playoffs he should quit after six innings, everybody’s sore from the reg season and the playoffs are even worse. We would have had a better chance with a fresh pitcher, the seventh inning has shown a pattern.
BlueSkyLA
I agree. All year long we saw the same thing: Mattingley or Honeycutt head out to the mound in the 7-8-9th inning to talk to Kershaw. If Kershaw says he can do it, they let him do it. And how often during the regular season did that not work out? I really don’t blame Mattingley for playing the hand in the postseason that worked for him all year.
Yamsi12
Give the Dodgers their 2015 rings already!!!
Ivan
Please oh please bring a new manager with you. It’d be a huge mistake not to start fresh there too!