LOS ANGELES -- Ten years ago, people would have wondered how someone like Farhan Zaidi could become a general manager of one of baseball's most storied franchises. It might be more relevant now to wonder how baseball could lure someone like Zaidi.Born in Canada to Pakistani parents and raised in the Philippines, Zaidi admits he came into the game with more to learn about it than the average baseball man. The old model for a general manager was someone who played at the college level or in the low minor leagues and often spent years as a scout, traveling the country and breaking down players.