Dodgers Built For Titles

Andrew Friedman’s plan turned the club from playoff-caliber into championship-caliber in less than three years.

- Kyle Glaser

The Dodgers were in a good place when they hired Andrew Friedman as president of baseball operations after the 2014 season.

They had won back-to-back National League West division titles, boasted the game’s best pitcher and had a burgeoning group of talent making its way through the minors.

But that wasn’t enough for a franchise with the baseball’s largest payroll and a rich history of championships that were becoming more and more of a distant memory.

So when Friedman, general manager Farhan Zaidi, vice president of baseball operations Josh Byrnes and the rest of new management took over the Dodgers’ front office that fall, their task was to turn a playoff-caliber team into a championship-caliber one.