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Farhan Zaidi is a Canadian-American sports executive of Pakistani descent. He is currently the General Manager of the Los Angeles Dodgers. Zaidi was born in Canada and raised in the Philippines.〔 He has a Bachelor of Science degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a doctorate of philosophy (PhD) in economics from the University of California, Berkeley. He briefly worked for the Boston Consulting Group〔 and the Sporting News website between MIT and Berkeley.〔 While at Berkeley, he read the book ''Moneyball'' and it changed his life. He saw a job posting for a baseball operations position with the Oakland Athletics and sent out his resume, beating out 1,000 other applicants for the job. He was a data analysis sabermetrics assistant when he started. His boss with the Athletics, Billy Beane called him "absolutely brilliant" and credited him with the acquisition of Cuban star Yoenis Céspedes. For the 2013 season he was promoted by the Athletics to the post of Director of Baseball Operations and added Assistant General Manager to his title in 2014. On November 6, 2014, he was hired by the Los Angeles Dodgers as their new General Manager.〔(【引用サイトリンク】ESPN.com">title=Dodgers hire Farhan Zaidi as GM )〕 Zaidi is one of two Muslim executives in Major League Baseball.〔 He is of Pakistani ancestry.〔 He is the first Muslim General Manager of any American pro sports franchise. ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Farhan Zaidi」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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