Ned Colletti

Ned Louis Colletti, Jr. is General Manager of the Los Angeles Dodgers. He previously served as Assistant General Manager for the San Francisco Giants.

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

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 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 (.558), winning an average of 90.3 games per season.