Giants dismiss Zaidi, name Buster Posey pres. of baseball ops

After six underwhelming seasons, the Giants have decided to move on from president of baseball operations Farhan Zaidi. Giants legend and team part-owner Buster Posey has been named the team's president of baseball operations.

The Giants announced that Zaidi has been dismissed with a guaranteed year left on his contract after falling short of the playoffs for the third consecutive year. San Francisco finished fourth in the National League West with an 80-82 record in 2024 and went 453-417 overall in the Zaidi era (2019-24), which yielded only one winning season and one playoff appearance, both of which came during the club’s franchise-record 107-win campaign in 2021.

It marked the second straight year in which the Giants have made a significant leadership change, as they also fired manager Gabe Kapler following the club’s September collapse in 2023.

The Giants entered this season with higher expectations after bringing in Bob Melvin to serve as their new skipper and committing over $320 million to six free agents -- Jung Hoo Lee, Blake Snell, Matt Chapman, Jorge Soler, Jordan Hicks and Tom Murphy -- and taking on an additional $74 million by acquiring Robbie Ray from the Mariners. The additions cost two Draft picks and pushed the Giants’ payroll over the luxury-tax threshold for the first time since 2017, but it wasn’t enough to keep the club in contention this year.

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