The Los Angeles Dodgers have been linked to practically every high-profile free agent on the field this offseason, signing a shocking number of them after winning the World Series in 2024.
Why not bring in arguably the top front-office free agent as well?
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Farhan Zaidi, the former Dodgers' general manager who was fired from the San Francisco Giants' top baseball operations position last year, is coming back to Los Angeles as a special advisor, according to multiple reports Monday.
Zaidi, 49, left the Dodgers' front office to helm the Giants' baseball operations department from 2018-24. After San Francisco failed to reach the postseason in six of his seven seasons, Zaidi was replaced by Buster Posey as the team's president of baseball operations.
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From 2015-17, Zaidi was the general manager under Dodgers president of baseball operations Andrew Friedman.
Zaidi got his start in baseball as a baseball operations assistant with the A's, and worked in Oakland for 10 years under Billy Beane before ultimately being named director of baseball operations and assistant general manager in 2014.