Dodgers announce Baseball Operations moves
LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles Dodgers announced Damon Jones as Vice President, Assistant General Manager & Baseball Legal Counsel, and the promotions of Alex Slater to Vice President, Assistant General Manager, Brandon McDaniel to Vice President of Player Performance and Thomas Albert to Head Athletic Trainer.
Jones joins the Dodgers after serving the last two seasons as the Washington Football Team’s General Counsel. The Harvard Law School alumnus has over 20 years of experience as a sports, entertainment and media attorney, including 13 seasons with the Washington Nationals organization as the Senior Vice President & General Counsel. The former UC Santa Barbara baseball standout was selected to the 2020 UCSB Intercollegiate Hall of Fame as the Distinguished Gaucho and was on the Nationals staff in 2019 when they won the World Championship.
Slater has been part of the Dodgers front office since 2014, serving various roles, including Director of Baseball Operations (2017-2021), Assistant Director of Scouting (2015-2017) and Senior Manager of Pro Scouting (2014-2015). The UC Berkeley alumnus joined the Dodgers the same offseason in which Andrew Friedman was named President, Baseball Operations. Slater has been in Major League Baseball for 14 seasons, serving as a Baseball Operations Assistant in the professional scouting department of the San Diego Padres from 2009-2014.
McDaniel will enter his 10th season at the Major League level with the Dodgers and his first as the Vice President of Player Performance. He was previously the Dodgers’ Director of Player Performance from 2019-2021 and has held various titles since joining Los Angeles, including Dodgers’ Strength and Conditioning Coach in 2013 and Head Strength and Conditioning Coach from 2014-2018. He originally joined the Dodgers in 2012, working as the Strength Coach for Triple-A Albuquerque. In total, McDaniel enters his 14th season in professional baseball, working three seasons with the Pittsburgh Pirates from 2007-2009.
Albert will take over as the Head Athletic Trainer after serving as the Dodgers’ Assistant Athletic Trainer from 2016-2021. He is in his 11th season in professional baseball after serving four seasons with the Cleveland Indians as Medical/Rehabilitation Coordinator from 2012-2015. A native of Burlington, Iowa, earned his Doctorate degree in Physical Therapy from A.T. Still University.