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Reports: Rays GM Friedman to Dodgers

The Sports Xchange

October 14, 2014 at 2:22 pm.

The Los Angeles Dodgers are expected to hire Tampa Bay Rays general manager Andrew Friedman as their president of baseball operations, multiple reports indicated Tuesday.

General manager Ned Colletti will stay with the Dodgers as a senior adviser to president and CEO Stan Kasten, according to the reports. Colletti had served as GM since 2005.

Friedman had worked as the Rays GM since 2005 when he was elevated to the post at age 28.

Now 37, Friedman built the Rays into a winner. The franchise has made four playoff appearances since 2008 and had six straight winning seasons.

This year, though, the Rays slumped to 77-85 and finished in fourth place in the American League East.

Friedman, who has Wall Street experience, goes from a budget-minded franchise with a strong farm system to a team that had had the biggest payroll in the major leagues this season.

The Dodgers won the National League West for the second straight year but were knocked out of the postseason in the National League Division Series by the St. Louis Cardinals last week.

Dodgers manager Don Mattingly expects to return in 2015 as he enters the second year of a three-year contract.

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