Background
Friedman, who is Jewish, was born in Houston, Texas. Like his father Kenny, he played baseball for Tulane.
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He attended Episcopal High School in Houston, and subsequently Tulane University on a baseball scholarship, where he earned a Bachelor of Surgery in management with a concentration in finance at Tulane"s Freeman School of Business.
Career
He previously served as the general manager for the Tampa Bay Rays, where Sporting News named him Executive of the Year in 2008. That year, for the first time in franchise history, the Rays both qualified for the playoffs and played in the World Series. Friedman was then an analyst with Bear Stearns from 1999–2002, and then was an associate at MidMark Capital, a private equity firm, from 2002-2004.
Tampa Bay Rays
In 2003, Friedman met Stuart Sternberg, the new owner of the Tampa Bay Rays.
They realized they had similar ideas about the game and wanted to work together. From 2004 to 2005, Friedman served as the Director of Development for the Rays.
He was promoted to the position of Executive Vice President of Operations and General Manager after the 2005 season, at the age of 28, replacing the club"s first General Manager, Chuck LaMar, who was fired following the club"s 8th losing season in its 8 years in existence. Friedman gradually rebuilt the team, and it paid off in 2008 when the Rays made the postseason for the first time in franchise history, and advanced all the way to the World Series.
Foreign his efforts, he was named as Executive of the Year by Sporting News.
They also made the playoffs in 2010, 2011 and 2013 under his tenure. Los Angeles Dodgers
On October 14, 2014, it was announced that he would leave the Rays to become the President of Operations for the Los Angeles Dodgers. His contract with the Dodgers was reported at $35 million for five years, making him the highest-paid front-office executive in baseball.
Friedman hired former Oakland Athletics executive Farhan Zaidi as the Dodgers" new General Manager and brought in former Padres general manager Josh Byrnes as Vice President of Operations.
In his first offseason with the Dodgers, Friedman and the new front office made a huge splash. Through free agency or trades, the Dodgers parted ways with shortstop Hanley Ramirez, outfielder Matt Kemp, second baseman Dee Gordon, and pitchers Brian Wilson and Dan Haren.
However, they bolstered their farm system and added key players such as catcher Yasmani Grandal, infielders Howie Kendrick and Jimmy Rollins, and pitchers Brett Anderson & Mike Bolsinger. Friedman helped lead the Dodgers to their third straight National League West division title in 2015, his first season, but the team fell to the New York Mets in the National League Division Series (NLDS), 3–2.
After the 2015 season, MLB penalized the Dodgers with a record $43 million luxury tax after determining their payroll for the season was nearly $300 million, also an all-time record.
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