The Giants introduced Buster Posey as their new President of Baseball Operations, replacing Farhan Zaidi.

“We’re going to hire a GM,” Posey said. “That’s going to be one of the first tasks right out the gate. Pete’s been made aware that he’ll be moving off the GM role. We’ll work through what some other responsibilities might look like for him.”  

Posey, who has no prior front-office experience, is expected to heavily lean on those around him as he navigates his new role.

“It’s fair,” Posey said of the criticism that he lacks experience. “Everybody is entitled to their opinion, and again, I do think a strength of mine is that I’ll be all ears and listening and taking in information from people who have been doing this for a long time. I do think it’s important we bring in [someone] that’s been versed in all aspects of front office.”  

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And with Farhan gone, a lot comes to light about how much he was disliked by the players.

It’s rather interesting that two of Billy Beane’s lieutenants did rather poorly running their own clubs. Paul DePodesta wound up being fired by the Dodgers and is now a football executive.