Ned Colletti

Who is Ned Colletti?

Ned Louis Colletti, Jr. is general manager of the Los Angeles Dodgers and the winningest active general manager in the National League from 2006 through 2013. Before moving to the Dodgers, he was assistant general manager of the San Francisco Giants.

Colletti graduated from East Leyden High School in Franklin Park, Illinois, and attended Triton College before graduating fromNorthern Illinois University. He was inducted into the Triton College Sports Hall of Fame in 1993, the same year as the Major League players Kirby Puckett, Lance Johnson and Jeff Reboulet.

In 1982, Colletti began his Major League career with the Chicago Cubs. He worked both in the media relations and baseball operations departments, rising to assume responsibility for key salary arbitration cases and assisting in player acquisitions and salary negotiations. He was a member of the front office when the Cubs won the National League East in 1984 and 1989 and was instrumental in retaining the Hall of Famers Ryne Sandberg and Andre Dawson. Colletti was honored with Major League Baseball's Robert O. Fishel Award for Public Relations Excellence in 1990.

Colletti left the Cubs and joined the front office of the San Francisco Giants in 1994 as director of baseball operations. He was promoted to assistant general manager in October 1996 and in his nine seasons working side-by-side with Brian Sabean, the Giants had a 813-644 record, winning an average of 90.3 games per season. In 2013, his eighth season with the Dodgers, Colletti had more wins than any active general manager in the National League.