The Giants announced Monday that they have fired president of baseball operations Farhan Zaidi. Franchise icon Buster Posey will serve as the team’s new president of baseball operations, the team announced. Posey is one of six on the Giants’ board of directors and will now oversee the roster’s construction as well. Susan Slusser of the San Francisco Chronicle first reported that Zaidi, who was under contract through the 2025 season (with a 2026 option), was being dismissed.
“We appreciate Farhan’s commitment to the organization and his passion for making an impact in our community during six years with the Giants,” chairman Greg Johnson said in statement within today’s press release. “Ultimately, the results have not been what we had hoped, and while that responsibility is shared by all of us, we have decided that a change is necessary. While these decisions are not easy, we believe it is time for new leadership to elevate our team so we can consistently contend for championships. I wish Farhan and his family nothing but the best moving forward.
“As we look ahead, I’m excited to share that Buster Posey will now take on a greater role as the new President of Baseball Operations. We are looking for someone who can define, direct and lead this franchise’s baseball philosophy and we feel that Buster is the perfect fit. Buster has the demeanor, intelligence and drive to do this job, and we are confident that he and [manager] Bob Melvin will work together to bring winning baseball to San Francisco.”
The writing has in many ways been on the wall for Zaidi for some time now. The 2024 season was viewed as a pivotal one for the Giants, who unsuccessfully pursued Shohei Ohtani over the offseason and instead wound up signing Matt Chapman, Blake Snell, Jung Hoo Lee, Jorge Soler and Jordan Hicks as they looked to get back on track after consecutive losing seasons. The Giants won 107 games under Zaidi in 2021 but have not had a winning season under his watch otherwise. The lack of consistent results prompted many to wonder whether Zaidi could survive another sub-.500 season.
The most telltale portent for change, however, came late this summer, when the Giants announced a six-year, $151MM contract extension for the aforementioned Chapman. Signing the star third baseman on the heels of a down season proved to be a home run swing for Zaidi & Co., as Chapman rebounded with one of the best seasons of his career. However, The Athletic reported not long after the extension was completed that Posey had stepped in to run point on negotiations after ownership had become “frustrated” with the lack of early progress in talks.
The Giants had plenty of individual player acquisition successes under Zaidi’s watch. San Francisco became a destination for pitchers looking to turn their careers around, as veterans like Kevin Gausman, Carlos Rodon, Anthony DeSclafani, Drew Smyly, Drew Pomeranz and Derek Holland all strong seasons at Oracle Park before cashing in on more lucrative deals (Holland’s in a one-year return to the Giants that did not pan out as well). Gausman’s resurgence, in particular, proved to be a major win for the Giants. He thrived on a one-year deal during the Covid-shortened 2020 season, accepted a qualifying offer that winter, and was dominant in a full season in ’21.
That list of successes is also emblematic of another hallmark of Zaidi’s tenure, however: an aversion to long-term spending. The Giants opted to let Gausman walk in free agency rather than commit long-term. His five-year, $110MM deal with the Blue Jays has been a bargain for Toronto thus far. Similarly, the Giants let Carlos Rodon depart after his own tremendous season in orange and black, although the early returns on his six-year deal with the Yankees might have the Giants feeling better about that decision than the Gausman one. The Giants did pay up to keep DeSclafani, who returned on a three-year, $36MM contract after a terrific 2021 season, but that contract almost immediately went south.
On the position-player side of things, the Giants have struggled to attract hitters to their spacious park and to develop key contributors. Zaidi’s early tenure included some unmitigated successes in terms of bargain bin shopping. He acquired Mike Yastrzemski, LaMonte Wade Jr., Donovan Solano, Thairo Estrada and Darin Ruf for next to nothing. All became vital regulars or role players for several years. But the Giants were also unable to land big fish like Aaron Judge and Bryce Harper, while the attempted 13-year deal with Carlos Correa was scuttled by medical concerns.
The Giants have regularly pivoted to Plan B or Plan C after missing on big-name free agents — as they did last year following Ohtani’s deal in L.A. — and have a much spottier track record on those deals. Soler, Mitch Haniger and Michael Conforto all fell well shy of being the middle-of-the-order presences the Giants hoped. It’s too early to tell how the aforementioned six-year deal for Lee will play out after his season ended early due to shoulder surgery, but the sheer magnitude of that $113MM contract was a surprise to some in the industry.
The missteps weren’t all limited to the team’s pursuit of big bats. San Francisco has also had its share of misses on smaller-scale free agent investments; Tommy La Stella, Luke Jackson, Ross Stripling and Tom Murphy have all fallen shy of expectations. La Stella was released before the final season of his three-year deal. Jackson and Stripling were shipped out in salary-dump deals. Murphy’s signing — which helped push Joey Bart out of town and over to Pittsburgh, where he enjoyed a breakout year — has been a flop thus far and could make him a salary dump candidate himself this winter.
Posey will now be tasked with engineering a turnaround at the stadium he called home for the entirety of his 12-year playing career. His instantaneous ascension to president of baseball operations is far more surprising than Zaidi’s departure. Posey joined the Giants’ board of directors barely two years ago, when he purchased a minority stake in the team.
At the time, it seemed to be little more than a ceremonial move from a beloved player. Posey even stated at the time of the announcement that he was not taking on any type of front office role and that he was viewing his new role as “another opportunity for me to learn more about the game, more about the business and really commit my time to an organization in a city that I’ve grown to love.”
What happens from here remains to be seen, of course. Johnson’s statement did not indicate that general manager Pete Putila is in any danger of being dismissed, though even if he stays on board, he’d be second on the team’s baseball operations hierarchy, behind Posey. Longtime assistant general manager Jeremy Shelley remains with the club as well. Still, today’s press release did include a reference to conducting searches for any “open positions.” Virtually any change at the top of a baseball operations department is eventually accompanied by some personnel changes down the ladder, so it remains possible there are still some alterations to the tapestry of the Giants’ front office that have yet to come to light.
Posey, of course, has no baseball operations experience outside of whatever interactions occurred between him and Chapman earlier this summer. He’s likely been at least tangentially involved in some roster construction elements since purchasing his stake in the club, but he’s never held any sort of baseball operations title and more or less went directly from the team’s everyday catcher to minority owner, purchasing his share of the club less than one calendar year after playing his final game.
It’s rare, albeit not unprecedented in today’s game, for someone to be tabbed as a baseball operations leader with zero prior baseball operations experience. Agents Brodie Van Wagenen and Dave Stewart (a former big leaguer himself, of course) were hired as the general managers for the Mets and Diamondbacks within the past decade, respectively. Neither lasted more than a few seasons in their posts, however. Current Rangers general manager Chris Young pitched in the majors until 2017 and was working in the league’s central offices as MLB’s senior vice president of on-field operations, initiatives and strategy when Texas hired him as GM under then-president Jon Daniels.
Posey’s ascension to the top of a baseball operations department is far more sudden and rapid than any of those executives. Van Wagenen had been one of the highest-profile agents in the sport for more than a decade, negotiating countless contracts — albeit on the other side of the proverbial table. Stewart was retired as a player for nearly 20 years and, like Van Wagenen, had been representing players for quite some time, giving him plenty of familiarity with that side of the game. Young wasn’t much further removed from his playing days but had spent two years working in the league’s central offices. He was also hired as the No. 2 executive on the Rangers’ front office chart and spent more than two years working under Daniels before being promoted to the top post in Arlington.
Posey will now be tasked with revamping a Giants roster that has regularly lacked star power, relied heavily on platoons and has too often been permeated by aging players with waning athleticism. He’ll simultaneously need to build up a farm system that’s regarded as lackluster and work to improve a player development operation that has frequently seen top prospects either underperform or fizzle out. Homegrown talents like Logan Webb, Kyle Harrison, Heliot Ramos, Tyler Fitzgerald and Patrick Bailey all look like viable core pieces. But a number of the team’s other top prospects over the years — Bart, Luis Matos, Marco Luciano, Hunter Bishop, Will Bednar, Casey Schmitt — have not developed as hoped.
The $151MM Chapman extension signals that even with this change in baseball operations, the Giants aren’t planning on taking any kind of step back. They’ll look get back into competition in the National League West next year and do so alongside a perennial Dodgers powerhouse, an ascendant Padres club and a D-backs squad that went to the World Series as recently as last season. It’s a tall order for any executive, let alone a rookie one — though Posey’s last rookie season certainly produced strong results.
ohyeadam
Did not see this coming!
Michol
Bottom line is his draftees havent developed at all unfortunately… 🙁
el_chapo_
Does one else see the racial overtones in this decision? Firing a minority gm who has done a decent job, and replacing him with a white male with prior experience. Reminiscent of the Kim Ng debacle.
prov356
el chapo – what actual evidence of racism are you citing?
ortsacnilrats
No? We seen “decent” not cut it across sports. Time to move on IMO.
Fernando Ringworm Jr.
@el_chapo_ Don’t try IT.
mlb fan
“Racial overtones in this decision”..Racists tend to see “racism” everywhere. And you are the voice of “minorities” everywhere, right?…
I love the elitist people that think they’re the voice of people of color worldwide. I’m pretty sure minorities are “happy” to have you as their spokesman, right El Chapo?
And coming from a guy with an offensive latino username this is totally rich. “El Chapo” is the Latino man you choose to celebrate?
There’s no other murderers of women, men and children you could have chosen? No other drug dealers?
30 Parks
Moral superiority from a guy named “el chapo.” These holier-than-thou, inciteful posts are played-out. Zaidi missed on every big free agent he aimed for and his draft picks are, at best, weak.
Pete'sView
el_chapo_
A “decent job?” You must be kidding.
Pete'sView
You must have been asleep not to “see this coming.”
Michol
My issue is Posey hire. Yes, he was legendary player, but ti run thw whole show? What a joke This was image hire. A hire that fans, FAs and their families, agents can relate to I suppose… posey has long way to go to match Zaidi…
2014giants
Uhm match 5 out of 6 losing seasons! Come on, and everyone said the same thing about lynch!
Sabean Wannabe
Maybe it is an image hire but maybe that’s a good thing. Putila and Shelley can do all the number crunching and recommendations and Posey can provide organizational direction and close deals. Clearly Zaidi simply wasn’t closing on FAs. Not suggesting its an easy thing to do but maybe “playing for Buster” will help get more players interested in SF.
ohyeadam
Not surprised to see Zaidi fired but to replace him immediately with Posey, or anyone really, is an odd move. Stepping in for ownership on a big extension isn’t the same thing as running the org. Zaidi really only had that one lucky year. Which oddly enough was Buster’s last hurrah
stymeedone
What happened to the requirement for minority opportunities? Seems considering a minority only occurs if its convenient.
Sabean Wannabe
Posey is a straight, white male in San Francisco….he is a minority.
mlb fan
“Minority opportunities”…Hiring someone primarily because of their skin color is even more offensive than NOT hiring the same person because of their skin color.
Hiring someone primarily due to their skin color suggests that person(or entity/company)believes in a particularly high level of racial superiority.
And promotes the idea that certain skin colors or races will never be able to achieve on their own, without lowered standards and requirements.
This one belongs to the Reds
You had a feeling after they had Posey negotiating earlier while Zaidi was still employed.
pohle
good on you. in hindsight it was the next logical step but i hadnt quite taken it that far, although its not like ive spent a lot of time thinking about the giants recently.
bkbk
Sure seems like Posey Littlefingered Zaidi. Feels like the whole thing started a little unsememly.
Fred
Bruh did you see Posey’s career pitch framing? Dude has hugefingers.
LordD99
Always good to name someone with no experience running baseball operations to run baseball operations.
ryanisntcreative
He’s been involved in ownership for a few years, and seems to be universally liked and respected in the baseball world. I’m sure he’ll lean heavily on GM/AGMs and their lieutenants.
I was never the biggest Farhan hater, but hard to imagine Buster would do much worse.
julyn82001
Well, Buster earned it experience with the role or… Not…
Diggerydoo
They all are forgetting Vogt and it’s only his 1st year 🙂
Posey will move towards ball and less towards the accounts. Will be soft at 1st and dismal later on, but fun for next year 🙂
luvochka
It all depends on the ability to manage, to know that you’re not the best at everything but put people who are better than you at the positions where they can excel, and then not micromanage. Personally I think Posey can do that.
ckc12537
Always good to have someone with no experience doing a particular job to do that particular job.
What could go wrong?
BaseballisLife
Would have to double check, but I believe that other than Dombrowski and Anthopolous, none of the other POBO/GMs in the playoffs had experience at the job before their current job. I could be wrong about that since I didn’t check first.
Oops, Stearns if Mets make it.
Fever Pitch Guy
Life – Pretty sure Andrew Friedman’s team is in the playoffs.
m34josh
Well, he is replacing an experienced one who got horrific results, so at least it can’t go any worse
SFBay314
You are right only people that have done something should be able to do that thing forever.
No learning or experimenting!!!
Moonlight Graham
Posey played the game at the highest level and has been part of ownership for a couple years now. He has a tremendous amount of experience to know what the job entails.
Meanwhile, Zaidi didn’t play beyond an independent league during his high school years while growing up in the Philippines. Baseball isn’t in his bones the same way it’s in Posey’s. And while Posey isn’t an MIT grad like Zaidi, he’s still a pretty intelligent guy.
stymeedone
Chances are Posey relied on his agent for the one contract he has had experience with, his own. Having played the game helps when doing an on-field job, but has little to do with stadium operations and the intricacies of contracts and long term financial planning. Best of luck to him, because luck is what he’ll have to rely on.
Michol
Exactly! It’s not that easy…
cainer18
This is certainly a risk, but I’m guessing Posey will be more hands-off in minor transactions and the day-to-day. Most POBO’s got the promotion by being a GM and working their way through the front office, but there was a time when GM itself was the top job. Posey can more or less install that kind of structure — a structure where the GM handles the minutiae of baseball ops, and Posey is the one orchestrating all the personnel. He will certainly bring better communication (with players and fans) and he can be a huge asset in courting big ticket players. I imagine the team will see players like human beings a bit more than Farhan, who seemed to ignore the bedside manner in favor of treating players like spreadsheets.
But if the idea is for Posey to step into a more “POBO is really just the super-GM” role that has become more prevalent in recent years, this would be a very strange move. Trying to force Posey to become the next Farhan would reek of desperately overcorrecting.
gbs42
D99, everyone has a first time doing a job. He needs to surround himself with talent.
its_happening
Posey has something Zaidi doesn’t; baseball experience. That, and Posey knows winning.
Zaidi might be going to Toronto.
showmebb
I think the Chapman negotiations made it clear he was on his way out.
Michol
What’s so hard about offering 6 years for $150m??
BaseballisLife
Do you mean that Zaidi was not involved in those negotiations? Because that was a good signing. Not many 7 WAR players out there. Locking him up is good for the Giants.
Welp
My jaw is on the floor.
ryanisntcreative
I… uh…. Okay!
johnrealtime
Wild that not only did they appoint someone with no experience to a role like this, he also bypassed being a general manager
Best of luck, could really swing either way
antibelt
He’s also a minority stake owner, and worked alongside the Board the last years. They’ve been grooming him for this role.
scottn59c
I guess they have been. I didn’t really see it coming because Posey was a quiet leader on the field and fairly quiet in his post-baseball career with the one exception of the Chapman signing.
stymeedone
Really? Or is that just your guess? Is there any reporting from before the hire of his “grooming” and if so, why so much surprise?
Sadler
How does one gain experience without first gaining experience?
Senioreditor
Dodgers need to bring him back IMMEDIATELY!
DanM-9727
Heck no. He’s overrated. Didn’t do much during his stint with the Dodgers.
Fenway 1
A former player will care more about winning because they won’t just focus on the future
UncleJesse
Best news I’ve heard since my Giants fired Gabe Kapler!
HAVE MERCY!
Cat Mando
As a Phillies fan, did you have to say that name? I feel my breakfast coming back up.
BaseballisLife
Because that has worked out so well for the Giants?
thegreatbambi3
Yadi gonna be like hmmmmmm
ohyeadam
I don’t think Joe Mauer would do it for the Twins. His mom was in all those commercials with him. Maybe she’d be good
BaseballisLife
Going to be a large number of happy Giants fans today.
UncleJesse
Especially me. Can’t wait to text Danny and Joey about this!
ckc12537
For a second I was like who are Danny and Joey and then I saw the name. Good one.
jekporkins
As a longtime Giants fan (since 1985) this is one crazy move. I think they wanted a face for the franchise to pull in free agents. I hope they surround him with incredible baseball people who know the ins and outs/intricacies of the role.
This can go either way but I’m gonna be there with popcorn.
UncleJesse
I feel as if the Giants needed a drastic change. Is this the right move? We shall see, but with Buster being the one who took the lead on locking up defensive wizard Chapman I feel more positive than negative at this time. It is surely going to be an exciting off-season.
SweetBabyRayKingsThickThighs
Now this is the zest I needed today
Luke Strong
Putting your home town hero in charge of the franchise is a terrible decision. Now, Posey goes from beloved to the guy all the SF fans point their finger at every time they perceive the team to be falling short, which will be just about every season. In the end, Posey will go from beloved to hated, and it’s inevitable they will eventually have to fire him and it’ll be ugly. I’d say this is a horribly stupid move, the kind of move that sets a franchise back 5-10 years.
BaseballisLife
Posey will still be around even if they fire him as POBO. He is an owner of the team.
Simm
He owns a small portion. If things go ugly he can still own that portion and not be around.
BaseballisLife
20% is a small percentage, but a huge amount when you are talking about an organization worth $3 billion. It does guarantee that he will still be around regardless of what happens with him as POBO.
CCCTL
He bought in with his own money. There’s no way he had $600M to throw around.
Simm
Show me where posey himself owns 20% of the giants. 20% of 3b is 600m, he is worth a total of 150m. He put in his own money.
You are just making stuff up.
BaseballisLife
That is where you would be wrong. When Coca-Cola bought out Body Armor for $5.6 billion, Posey got around $800 million for his 15% stake in the company.
BaseballisLife
You are ill-informed. You really have to stop trying to get your info from clickbait sites. Posey owned a 15% stake in Body Armor and when Coca-Cola bought it for $5.6 billion, he got around $800 million. Posey made $150.9 million playing baseball.
Simm
Cool, show me where he made 800m, show me where he bought 20y of the giants. I’ll wait and likely you will reply and I’ll still be waiting.
Travis’ Wood
Clearly Posey cares more about the job than he does about his public perception. Good for him
bag o ballz
I don’t know – most teams have their POBO more behind the scenes and their GM as the face of the front office – maybe they go back to that . It would be good to see putilla if he is still around more in front and talking about what he is doing – I always though that the reason farhan was the guy they showed was because they had no GM for the first year and a half that he took over so he was the POBO and GM
quonset point
We saw that in Chicago with the Bulls and John Paxson. There’s an entire generation of Bulls fans who don’t remember Paxson the NBA Finals hero who played along MJ, but only know of Paxson who destroyed the Bulls with disastrous hirings and signings.
Travis’ Wood
Lol this guy really just compared 7 PPG John Paxson with future Hall of Famer Buster Posey….
stymeedone
Trammell was hired to manage the Tigers, a position that was a better fit than the one Posey just got. He got fired and while he is still in the organization, it took quite a bit of luster off his reputation with Detroit Fans.
Ronk325
Get your digs in now before those two Farhan sympathizers show up cry about what a nice guy he is
amk1920
Firing Farhan was the right move. But Posey really? Clinging to their dynasty era for dear life. Could be even worse than Farhan
Redstitch108* 2
Yay! Get rid of ALL the Ivy League bean counters and return baseball to being baseball.
408inthe619
Amen
Inside Out
Oh poor baby. Feel so bad for your lack of intelligence. Go back to sleep Mr Trump
Os1995
Ironically Trump is the Ivy Leaguer without the traditional experiences that someone in the political industry would have. You would think he would be in support of the Ivy Leaguers from outside the industry getting the job.
mlb fan
@Inside out. “lack of intelligence”….Are you the rich, spoiled “safe space” kid who makes comments from behind a protective wall or fence and is too scared to let others respond directly to him?..
Anyone that makes incendiary political commentary and then hides from others is weak, soft and spineless, right inside out?
BaseballisLife
I believe that every team in the playoffs is run by an Ivy League POBO with the exception of Anthopolous who majored in “bean counting” at McMaster University in Canada and Cashman who went to Catholic University and majored in history.
Big Hurt
LOL – this is the equivalent of “I hate analytics, bring back scouts and the eye test because I don’t understand data!”
Os1995
Farhan is not an Ivy League bean counter. He went to MIT which is an elite school but not a member of the Ivy League.
1958giants
Wahoo!! Tired of failed signings, failed drafting, systematic underacheiving, and lack of excitement and star power with our lineup.
cwsOverhaul
Iconic franchise player, but is he qualified? Perhaps Giants fans have a feel.
Troy Percival's iPad
I thought this was an MLB on Fax headline lmao
Monkey’s Uncle
Well, I guess sometimes you DO mess with the Farhan.
TellItGoodbye
As I posted over the weekend. And yes, I do want a cookie.
Monkey’s Uncle
What kind of cookie? I’m not going to give it to you, I’m just curious.
SFBay314
Let’s go! I had my posey for president sign yesterday at the game!!!
UncleJesse
Bold move for our beloved Giants!
HAVE MERCY!
Mehmehmeh
Moving Posey directly to the highest BO role is a mistake.
mad1
Wow! What a stupid move but expect nothing less
Diggerydoo
Posey being a “Consultant” last month made me think this was the direction things were going in
Simm
I think posey will bring some value to free agent signings. Probably will be more aggressive with trading prospects and what not trying to build a better mlb team.
Unfortunately that doesn’t always work, plus they will need to still draft and sign international players well.
This is a pretty big risk, not so much for the next year or two but for the next 4+ years. He will need to be smart with surrounding himself with good baseball guys and listen to them.
At least he will start with having respect around the league. Not a computer bot like Farhan.
stymeedone
Most “good baseball guys” don’t want to work for someone that they have to explain everything to. They want their boss to know his job, and theirs. Hard to maintain respect for your supervisor when you are better at the job than he is, have to do everything for him, and he gets paid more.
raulp
More shocking news shall be expected in the coming days, several organizations with a lot at stake.
CTS4
ROGERS do this in Toronto….FIRE SHAPIRO and carry-on baggage the Lackie Atkins…Both useless ….
Get Rid of the 2 Cleveland Clowns …!!
farscott
I want to see who (if anyone does) gets hired to be GM before opining about this change. I also have no idea what Posey has done behind the scenes to prepare for the job. or how he wants to delegate to his front office.
Rickey O'Sunnyvale
Barry Bonds for GM!
llily9727
He was lame with the Dodgers too. Good move by the Giants. Zaidi is overrated.
Wrian Washman
Farhan Zaidis inability to convince players to sign was exposed before the Chapman thing. With that being said you would think you ease Buster Posey into the role giving him a job in middle management then grooming him to work his way up. I agree with most of the comments that suiting him up and leapfrogging other likely more qualified internal candidates can not be a good idea. Awkward water cooler chats and disgruntled employees aside I would assume that job has a massive learning curve and is probably a lot more than just being a convincing negotiator of extensions.
Simm
People say this but judge was never singing there. Ohtani was never signing there. They are lucky they backed out of the Correa deal. People not singing there has more to do with San Francisco the. Farhan.
Heck Farhan signed choaman, snell and. Soler this offseason. Most giants fans were stiff as could be after these signings. I had plenty of them after this offseason including bomel tell me how much better than the padres they were.
Heck giants fans wanted Chapman back and most want snell back.
Wrian Washman
It was always a mistake to be over optimistic about the Chapman, Snell, Correa signings. Even in the A.L east all we heard all off season was that the Yankees were a 3rd or 4th place team because the O’s, Jays, and Rays were ‘soo’ much better. With that being said the last several years everyone in baseball was anxiously anticipating a full throttle money spending bonanza due to all the payroll flexibility the Giants had and it just never happened. The Red Sox are in danger of falling in the same path. If you’re not going to commit to a rebuild and you are a relatively large market with not a lot of contractual obligations you have to force players hands and blow away the competition. Is there great risk involved? Sure but that’s the risk you take when you’ve taken a firm stance against tearing it down. You can do much worse than Farhan but these are valid frustrations Giants fans raise.
gcg27
Not being pessimistic and glad Buster Posey is moving g up the ranks but straight to the President of Baseball operations seems a little too fast.. should have been tutored as assistant before getting the gig… if it works out fine but guess he will be ok if he has a strong supporting staff.. There’s a lot to the job and not sure he’s ready but good luck
clubberlang
Ummm what?
KHE
let’s see if he can get Snell to Resign Now !!
UncleJesse
If they don’t get Snell they can always pivot and go after Burnes. Personally, I’d rather have Burnes!
FemboySportsFan!
you would?
Snell has a higher WAR by a about 10.
More games pitched, 100 more innings, same career ERA, Snell has way more strikeouts, way better K%, Snell also has two ERA titles and two cy young awards.
They are ALMOST the same kind of pitcher, but Snell definitely has the edge over burnes.
UncleJesse
Yeah I would because Burnes isn’t injury prone (like Snell). You know that counts for something? He’s also 2 years younger, has a better career ERA+, doesn’t walk excessive amounts of batters (like Snell) and has a lower WHIP.
But thanks for your opinion, “femboysportsfan”.
desertdawg
Giants are taking a gamble in a way, I thought he be an assistant GM before he become named Prez. He has to learn some of being a President sitting behind the desk, running minor league system, running the everyday operation 365 days a year, holding meetings, plus other issues. Posey was a great catcher, use to pressure as a player, now a whole different position he has to play. Good luck to him.
talking baseball
Posey will surround himself with the best baseball people available.
He hasn’t even done anything for people to say it’s the wrong move.
Give him a chance and chill out, before being so negative.
UncleJesse
I agree with this reply. Buster is a winner, he has the trophies to prove it. Let’s see what he can do!!!
stymeedone
You don’t promote the Fry Cook at the Tulsa McDonalds to run the whole chain. You wouldn’t even promote that restaurants owner.
Dodgers took a page out of the CIAs book
Farhan was a plant, you can’t convince me otherwise.
Go Dodgers!
kellin
Wait.. this isnt the Onion or April 1st?
jdgoat
Wow. Posey went from unexpectedly retiring to President of Baseball Operations in a crazy short amount of time. I don’t know if I really like the Chapman extension but it will be interesting to see what else he does.
Luis_Fazenda
Considering the activities this last month or so, I think this move could be called with braille.
BlueSkies_LA
In another startling development, Giants ownership took the extraordinary step of firing itself. “We understand we are ultimately responsible for the disappointing performance of the team over the last several years,” they said in a statement. “Accordingly we have decided to spend more time with our families.”
RazzleDazzle
What is next? Tim Lincecum as GM
cooperhill
G e t a haircut!
SFGLifer
Finally, baseball people running a baseball team. This is the best thing that could happen to the org. Woohoo!
DashaToushu
@SFGL
And pilots should build airplanes!
DarrenDreifortsContract
Long overdue but Posey doesn’t seem much better. 151 million for Matt Chapman doesn’t really scream “Success”
cooperhill
Saw the picture, thought it was Danny Devito!
letitbelowenstein
Good. Maybe now the Giants will see improvement.
Bart Harley Jarvis
I am so proud of all of our fellow posters! An article about the Giants, and not one mention of San Francisco street poop! Way to go!
JoeBrady
Might be a bright enough guy, but this very much reminds me of when the Mets hired a players’ agent to become their GM. Experience might count for something.
YankeesBleacherCreature
Or Jeter.
Non Roster Invitee
Much rejoicing!
Now fire Holmes and Haines
Nice call on the poster who said “you heard it here first”
Gmen777
Wow I’m shocked by both sides of this to be honest. Zaidi failed to live up to expectations but I honestly thought they might roll it out one more year to finish his contract and keep continuity a bit. This definitely supports the talk that Posey stepped in with the Chapman extension
TellItGoodbye
Drew Smyly, Drew Pomeranz, and Derek Holland had “huge seasons” with SF??? Uh, no, they didn’t.
frugalfarhan
For all those that blindly supported FZ through the years and tried to defend him on this site you can all suck it especially Foppert! I am going to take .00001% credit for this since I have been roasting this guy for the last 5 years and had to deal with each of your BS. Best gift I could have gotten was this news this morning.
Fraham_
Drew Pomeranz sucked for them
TellItGoodbye
As did Drew Smyly and Holland.
Fraham_
Not really they both performed well above expectations
FOmeOLS
I wonder if Mike Elias will come calling?
Stlhomers
Cardinals should take notes: having a retired HOF catcher take more of a ownership role.
Reynaldo's
Does Buster Posey not enjoy being at home and spending time with his family?
Forebill
I love Posey. But, this is akin to replacing Dusty Baker with Felipe Alou. The Giants were organized after building the stadium to sell tickets. They sacraficed development for on field talent, mainly retaining Bonds for 3 years past his NL shelf life. The side effect is they sucked enough while holding on to Bonds that they caught lightening by drafting high for a couple years. But after that died they languished. Now, just as they are starting to see fruits like Ramos and Fitzgerald, they quit once again.
Posey is taking on the top position with no experience. I’ll give him an open mind. But I fully expect futitity to continue with the lack of continuity. The Fire Farhan Lunatics wont have him to blame 2 years from now.
azcrook
Posey will never be fired….if has to leave the POBO position, he will “step down” to pursue other options
benhen77
They really didn’t want to interview any outside candidates? Wish them the best, but don’t think Posey has been off the field long enough to be ready for a POBO job.
J.J. Hunsecker
Hallelujah!
They should have bounced this guy after the mess from last season. Instead they gave him a 2 to 3 year contract, which was bizarre for its terms of length (it’s 3 years…no it’s not! it’s 2 years with a 3rd year option…blah, blah, blah) and why it was even offered considering his consistent mediocrity in trying to build a winning team. Yeah, 2021 was a great year for Giants fans but it was an outlier since the other five years during Zaidi’s tenure have been nothing but complete crap.
hiflew
This is the best news for an NL West rival since Dave Stewart was named to lead the Diamondbacks.
Fernando Ringworm Jr.
Deserves it for not trading or waiving Blake Snell.
Jarred Kelenic's Beer Can
Right because a pitcher with a 3.12 ERA and a 2.43 FIP was the problem.
Jarred Kelenic's Beer Can
Nostalgia hires always work out!
John Bird
First take is this is a move to keep season ticket sales from falling off a cliff after a another mediocre season and not much suggesting a better future. A lot of fans never liked Zaidi, especially after he pushed Bochy out. Firing Kapler and hiring Melvin was a move toward winning back some of those fans but wasn’t enough. Zaidi would probably be a good #2 guy but was clearly over matched in the top job. His approach seemed much too timid to be competitive in the NL West.
The other take is this more about a change in philosophy, moving away from a Moneyball based approach to a more traditional one. Guessing Posey will be more involved in the overall direction of the team than the day to day operations. He has always been a leader since he first came up, and while he doesn’t have any front office experience there are few people smarter about how the game is played on the field.
Mojo37
I have nothing to add but we’re in a pitching change in the Mets-Braves game. So hi everyone.