Ned Colletti

Ned Louis Colletti Jr.

• School Northern Illinois University
• High School East Leyden High School

• Born April 16, 1954 in Chicago, IL USA

Biographical Information

Ned Colletti was named General Manager of the Los Angeles Dodgers in November 2005. Prior to joining the Dodgers, he had been an Assistant GM with the San Francisco Giants since 1997. His son Lou has been a scout. After the end of the 2014 season, team President Stan Kasten hired Andrew Friedman to be the Dodgers' General manager, with the title of President of Baseball Operations, while Colletti stayed on as senior advisor to Kasten. He also worked as an analyst for SportNet LA and gave classes on Sports Management at Pepperdine University. He won an Emmy Award for his television work.

His first job in baseball was in the media relations department of the Chicago Cubs. In 1994, he moved to the West Coast as Director of Baseball Operations for the Giants and later became Assistant General Manager in 1997. In 2019 he made a rather surprising career change, moving to the San Jose Sharks of the National Hockey League as a professional scout. He explained that he was a lifelong hockey fans, having grown up in the Chicago, IL area as a Blackhawks fan.

In 2025, he was hired by the Italian Baseball Federation as General Manager of the Italian national team, to work alongside manager Francisco Cervelli in scouting and recruiting players for the team for the 2026 World Baseball Classic. He explained that he had always had a love for international baseball, taking the Dodgers to various destinations while he was in charge of the team, most notably Australia in 2014, in order to help grow the game, and that it had always been a dream of his to help grow the game in the country from which his ancestors came.

Preceded by Paul DePodesta

Los Angeles Dodgers General Manager 2005-2014

Succeeded by Farhan Zaidi

Further Reading

• Michael Clair: "Cervelli and Colletti outline vision for Team Italy's future", mlb.com, February 9, 2025. [1]
• Ned Colletti and Joseph A. Reaves: The Big Chair: The Smooth Hops and Bad Bounces from the Inside World of the Acclaimed Los Angeles Dodgers General Manager, G.P. Putnam's Sons, New York, NY, 2017. ISBN 978-0735215726