Ned Colletti

Ned Louis Colletti Jr. is an American sports executive with 40 years experience in Major League Baseball and nearly 50 seasons in professional sports, including the last eight years in the National Hockey League with the San Jose Sharks. Colletti is a four-time Emmy Award-winning baseball analyst, a professor of Sports Administration at Pepperdine University and the author of the best-selling book The Big Chair. He was general manager of the Los Angeles Dodgers from 2006 through 2014. Before moving to the Dodgers, he was assistant general manager of the San Francisco Giants. Colletti is one of very few American sports executives to work in two major sports: Major League Baseball and the National Hockey League.

In January, 2025, he was named General Manager of Team Italy for the 2026 World Baseball Classic. Team Italy

Colletti graduated from East Leyden High School in Franklin Park, Illinois, and attended Triton College before graduating from Northern Illinois University. He was inducted into the Triton College Sports Hall of Fame in 1993, the same year as Major League players Kirby Puckett, Lance Johnson, and Jeff Reboulet. In 2015, he was inducted into the National Italian American Sports Hall of Fame. In 2021, he was inducted into the Chicago Sports Hall of Fame.