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Senior Vice President, Baseball Operations [20] Jeff Kingston: Vice President & Assistant General Manager [21] Alex Slater: Vice-President & Assistant General Manager [20] Damon Jones: Vice-President, Assistant General Manager & Baseball Legal Counsel [20] David Finley: Vice President, Scouting [20] Ismael Cruz: Vice-President, International ...
Josh Byrnes (born June 23, 1970) is an American baseball executive who is senior vice president of baseball operations for the Los Angeles Dodgers of Major League Baseball (MLB). [ 1 ] Byrnes began his career in 1994 as an intern with the Cleveland Indians .
Andrew Friedman is an American professional baseball executive. He is currently the president of baseball operations of the Los Angeles Dodgers of Major League Baseball (MLB). ). He previously served as the general manager for MLB’s Tampa Bay Rays, where Sporting News named him Executive of the Year in
In 1927, former umpire Billy Evans became the first person to hold a general manager title with a major-league team, the Cleveland Indians.. In the first decades of baseball's post-1901 modern era, responsibilities for player acquisition fell upon the club owner and/or president and the field manager. [1]
The first game in National League history was played on April 22, 1876, at Philadelphia's Jefferson Street Grounds, at 25th & Jefferson Streets, between the Philadelphia Athletics and the Boston baseball club. Boston won the game 6–5. The new league's authority was soon tested after the first season.
[16] [17] George Weiss was the president of the team, and seven-time World Series championship-winning manager Casey Stengel was hired to lead the Mets on the field. [16] Thanks to Shea's efforts to bring National League baseball back to New York, Shea Stadium the stadium the Mets would play in from 1964 to 2008, was named in his honor.
The Dodgers were the first Major League Baseball team to ever play in Los Angeles. On April 18, 1958, the Dodgers played their first LA game, defeating the former New York and now new San Francisco Giants, 6–5, before 78,672 fans at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum.
Hall joined the Diamondbacks in May 2005 as senior vice president and served in numerous capacities before being named president in September 2006 and adding the title of CEO in January 2009. Prior to joining the Diamondbacks, Hall served as senior vice president of the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Fortune 500 company KB Home.