FZ out; Posey new President of Baseball Opperations

[LHG]

 

[sf1giantfan]

Can he still play the outfield ?

 

[LHG]

Giants Hire Bobby Evans, Jeff Berry In Advisory Roles

The Giants are hiring Bobby Evans and Jeff Berry as advisors to first-year president of baseball operations Buster Posey, reports …

www.mlbtraderumors.com

 

[sf1giantfan]

Rumor is Bochy is next.

 

[LHG]

Didn't realize that so many coaches have departed this offseason.

Personnel Notes: Nakken, Giants, Guardians, Pirates

Major league coach Alyssa Nakken has departed the Giants and taken a new role with the Guardians in player development, …

www.mlbtraderumors.com

 

[stanford the manford]

Didn't realize that so many coaches have departed this offseason.

Personnel Notes: Nakken, Giants, Guardians, Pirates

Major league coach Alyssa Nakken has departed the Giants and taken a new role with the Guardians in player development, …

www.mlbtraderumors.com

I didn't realize Pedro Guerrero was a hitting coach.... TBH I could have sworn is was this guy

 

[calsnowskier]

I didn't realize Pedro Guerrero was a hitting coach.... TBH I could have sworn is was this guy

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Different Pedro Guerrero…

 

[packerzrule]

Rumor has it they will be making a strong run to get Adames.

 

[tzill]

Hadi Raad is leaving the Pirates to become the Giants’ new pro scouting director, sources tell @TheAthletic. Raad had been a professional evaluation team leader with Pittsburgh.

There's the outside voice we've been asking for.

 

[LHG]

Hadi Raad is leaving the Pirates to become the Giants’ new pro scouting director, sources tell @TheAthletic. Raad had been a professional evaluation team leader with Pittsburgh.

There's the outside voice we've been asking for.

Not real familiar with the Pirates' organization but it doesn't seem they've done a good job in graduating prospects (except for Skenes, of course). Interesting pick. Hope it works out.

 

[calsnowskier]

Not real familiar with the Pirates' organization but it doesn't seem they've done a good job in graduating prospects (except for Skenes, of course). Interesting pick. Hope it works out.

Raad is a PRO scout, not an amateur scout (based on tz’s post…. I never heard of the guy). I think that means that he analyzes other team’s farms and/or works as an advance scout. He doesn’t work the draft.

 

[tzill]

The PSD typically evaluates and has scouting reports on all levels of pro ball (MLB, Minors and independent ball). Minasian actually gave an interview in the booth during a game when he was in MIL where he gave an explanation on what he did at the time when he was a pro scouting director

 

[LHG]

Raad is a PRO scout, not an amateur scout (based on tz’s post…. I never heard of the guy). I think that means that he analyzes other team’s farms and/or works as an advance scout. He doesn’t work the draft.

Thanks for the correction. So the question is how have the players the Pirates have acquired via trades have done over the past few years. Since the Pirates don't really sign free agents (except bargain bin players who they hope to flip, many of which instead flop), the only real way to evaluate his talents is through that lens.

 

[calsnowskier]

Thanks for the correction. So the question is how have the players the Pirates have acquired via trades have done over the past few years. Since the Pirates don't really sign free agents (except bargain bin players who they hope to flip, many of which instead flop), the only real way to evaluate his talents is through that lens.

Was he around for McCutchen 4 Reynolds/Crick?

 

[LHG]

Was he around for McCutchen 4 Reynolds/Crick?

If he was, and in a capacity that allowed him to make the recommendations on who to acquire from the Giants, then he is a great acquisition for the new FO.

 

[Stokes1931]

Farhan Zaidi talking to Dodgers about front office role: Sources​

The Los Angeles Dodgers are talking to their former general manager and ex-San Francisco Giants president of baseball operations Farhan Zaidi about returning to the organization, league sources told The Athletic on Tuesday.

No deal has been finalized, and the role Zaidi would play in the Dodgers’ front office is unclear. But the Dodgers would be a logical landing spot for the former Athletics, Dodgers and Giants executive, who lost his job with San Francisco in September.

Zaidi had run the Giants’ baseball operations department since the end of the 2018 season, leading the only team to unseat the Dodgers’ decade-plus run of dominance in the National League West in 2021. Yet the Giants failed to make the postseason or even finish above .500 in any other year of Zaidi’s tenure. He was replaced as president of baseball operations by longtime Giants catcher Buster Posey.

For as much as the Giants sought to add a star to center Zaidi’s vision around, they often found themselves on the outside looking in — including in the races for Shohei Ohtani and Yoshinobu Yamamoto, who each signed with the Dodgers as part of the franchise’s $1.4 billion offseason last winter. While the Giants did land star third baseman Matt Chapman and two-time Cy Young Award winner Blake Snell last offseason, the Giants still finished 80-82. Snell recently signed a five-year, $182 million deal with the Dodgers.

Farhan Zaidi (left) and Andrew Friedman (right) address the media after manager Don Mattingly’s departure from the Dodgers in 2015. (Richard Vogel / Associated Press)
With the Dodgers, Zaidi would return to the place where he served as general manager for four seasons under president of baseball operations Andrew Friedman, reshaping an organization already at the beginning of a stretch of dominance and putting forth the early steps in what Friedman has long aspirationally called “the golden era of Dodger baseball.” In those four seasons, the Dodgers won the division each season, clinched their first pennant in 29 years and found breakthroughs in young, ascending talents like Corey Seager and Cody Bellinger (both inherited from the previous regime) and Walker Buehler. They also unearthed early modern player development success stories, with Zaidi among those chiefly credited with the acquisitions of Max Muncy and Chris Taylor, both of which have now been part of the core of two World Series champion clubs in Los Angeles.
That made him a highly sought after executive among clubs, not just when he was hired in San Francisco but this winter.

Farhan Zaidi talking to Dodgers about front office role: Sources

The Giants' former president of baseball operations would return to the team where he served as general manager from 2014-2018.

www.nytimes.com

Our new secret agent Ned. He's our only hope to slow the Dodgers down. Or maybe we discover it was us all along....

 

[calsnowskier]

Farhan Zaidi talking to Dodgers about front office role: Sources​

The Los Angeles Dodgers are talking to their former general manager and ex-San Francisco Giants president of baseball operations Farhan Zaidi about returning to the organization, league sources told The Athletic on Tuesday.

No deal has been finalized, and the role Zaidi would play in the Dodgers’ front office is unclear. But the Dodgers would be a logical landing spot for the former Athletics, Dodgers and Giants executive, who lost his job with San Francisco in September.

Zaidi had run the Giants’ baseball operations department since the end of the 2018 season, leading the only team to unseat the Dodgers’ decade-plus run of dominance in the National League West in 2021. Yet the Giants failed to make the postseason or even finish above .500 in any other year of Zaidi’s tenure. He was replaced as president of baseball operations by longtime Giants catcher Buster Posey.

For as much as the Giants sought to add a star to center Zaidi’s vision around, they often found themselves on the outside looking in — including in the races for Shohei Ohtani and Yoshinobu Yamamoto, who each signed with the Dodgers as part of the franchise’s $1.4 billion offseason last winter. While the Giants did land star third baseman Matt Chapman and two-time Cy Young Award winner Blake Snell last offseason, the Giants still finished 80-82. Snell recently signed a five-year, $182 million deal with the Dodgers.

Farhan Zaidi (left) and Andrew Friedman (right) address the media after manager Don Mattingly’s departure from the Dodgers in 2015. (Richard Vogel / Associated Press)
With the Dodgers, Zaidi would return to the place where he served as general manager for four seasons under president of baseball operations Andrew Friedman, reshaping an organization already at the beginning of a stretch of dominance and putting forth the early steps in what Friedman has long aspirationally called “the golden era of Dodger baseball.” In those four seasons, the Dodgers won the division each season, clinched their first pennant in 29 years and found breakthroughs in young, ascending talents like Corey Seager and Cody Bellinger (both inherited from the previous regime) and Walker Buehler. They also unearthed early modern player development success stories, with Zaidi among those chiefly credited with the acquisitions of Max Muncy and Chris Taylor, both of which have now been part of the core of two World Series champion clubs in Los Angeles.
That made him a highly sought after executive among clubs, not just when he was hired in San Francisco but this winter.

Farhan Zaidi talking to Dodgers about front office role: Sources

The Giants' former president of baseball operations would return to the team where he served as general manager from 2014-2018.

www.nytimes.com

Our new secret agent Ned. He's our only hope to slow the Dodgers down. Or maybe we discover it was us all along....

He could be the the best Asst GM in all of baseball, and the dogs are about to sign him as such.

I hate baseball.

 

[msgkings322]

He could be the the best Asst GM in all of baseball, and the dogs are about to sign him as such.

I hate baseball.

Baseball in the current era of Dodgers Evil Empire is less fun for sure

 

[LHG]

Dodgers Hire Farhan Zaidi As Special Advisor

The Dodgers have brought back old friend Farhan Zaidi. Read more at MLB Trade Rumors.

www.mlbtraderumors.com

 

[calsnowskier]

Dodgers Hire Farhan Zaidi As Special Advisor

The Dodgers have brought back old friend Farhan Zaidi. Read more at MLB Trade Rumors.

www.mlbtraderumors.com

I would be concerned that he is bringing industrial secrets with him to the doggies, but then I look at our organization and realize we have absolutely nothing the doggies could use.

FZ did a hell of a job sabotaging us. HOF level sabotage right there.

They are saying it is some of the best sabotage they have ever seen. Beautiful sabotage, actually. The most beautiful sabotage you have ever seen.