Can Mark Walter’s Dodgers Magic Unlock a Championship Future for the Lakers?
Mark Walter has enjoyed two World Series championships and 11 division titles with the Dodgers. What can he do with the Lakers? (Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images)
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Guggenheim let Colletti steer the team for three seasons, and then removed him from his post for the guy they probably wanted all along: Andrew Friedman, then the analytics-minded general manager of the small-market Rays and still the head of the team’s baseball ops.
The manager position was a similar story, with Don Mattingly exiting stage left a year later for Friedman’s pick of Dave Roberts, who still holds the position. From there, the Dodgers went to work. Friedman erected a player development machine that is still the best in baseball, and then began spending as if his job were on the line (it isn’t).
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