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More On Giants’ General Manager Search

By Leo Morgenstern | October 16, 2024 at 1:47pm CDT

Earlier this month, Susan Slusser of the San Francisco Chronicle wrote about three potential candidates for the Giants’ open general manager position: Athletics assistant GM Billy Owens, Giants assistant GM Jeremy Shelley, and former Giants GM Bobby Evans. However, she also noted that the search was just beginning and was likely to go well beyond those three initial names. Indeed, the list is already growing. On Tuesday, Slusser reported that the team “appears to have targeted” De Jon Watson, formerly the director of player development for the Nationals and currently a special adviser for the Astros. She also names Logan White, a long-time special advisor in the Padres front office and formerly a long-tenured executive with the Dodgers, as a candidate for the position and adds that Royals assistant GM Scott Sharp is also “on the Giants’ radar.”

Additionally, Slusser emphasized that Evans isn’t necessarily a candidate to reclaim his job as the Giants GM, a role he held for four seasons from 2015-18. It’s not yet clear what type of front office job the team is considering him for; it could be more of an advisory role than an official position. Similarly, she mentions that Evans’s predecessor, three-time World Series winner Brian Sabean, would be “welcomed back” to the club in an advisory capacity. It’s unclear, however, if Sabean has expressed any interest in leaving his current advisory position with the Yankees to return to the Bay Area.

Just as interesting as the growing list of potential front office hires are the notable names to whom the Giants have not yet reached out. Slusser reports that the team has not been in contact with former Twins GM Thad Levine or former Marlins GM Kim Ng. Despite president of baseball operations Buster Posey’s limited front office experience, the Giants aren’t necessarily interested in hiring a veteran GM to work alongside him. Instead, Posey suggests they could look to hire someone with a strong scouting background, and Slusser adds the GM will most likely take on more of a “public-facing” role while Posey oversees transactions and hirings.

There’s good reason to believe neither Levine nor Ng would have much interest in taking on that type of role. Ng turned down her side of a mutual option with the Marlins last offseason because she didn’t want to work as the second-in-command under a newly hired POBO. Levine’s reasons for leaving the Twins aren’t quite as clear, though it’s easy to imagine he’d like a chance to be a team’s chief baseball decision-maker after working under Derek Falvey for eight seasons. Without reading too much into a playful comparison, it might have been telling when Levine likened his role with the Twins to Mary Poppins “singing in the background.” Perhaps he’d like a chance to sing center stage, and it doesn’t seem like he’d get that opportunity in San Francisco.

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  1. Redsman59

    9 months ago

    My first first.
    Giants will not likely have trouble hiring the fit they want with Posey

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    • User 2770661946

      9 months ago

      Congrats. We all remember the day of our first first.

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      • Non Roster Invitee

        9 months ago

        I remember my last first.

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  2. mlb fan

    9 months ago

    There’s a new Sheriff in town and his name is “Buster”.

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    • Acoss1331

      9 months ago

      The Ballad of Buster Skraggs has begun!

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  3. yeasties

    9 months ago

    “the GM will most likely take on more of a “public-facing” role while Posey oversees transactions and hirings.” – I am boggled

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    • Sadler

      9 months ago

      It’s easy to be “boggled’ when you have absolutely no knowledge about Posey’s business acumen.

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      • Samuel

        9 months ago

        Sadler;

        I’d suggest that the SF Giants have experienced personnel – either in-house people on 6 and possibly 7 figure salaries – or professionals on call – that will consult for a fee in what are extremely complicated economic and legal issues. The reason I’d suggest that is because all MLB (now billion dollar) franchises do.

        Do you really think Farhan Zaidi knew all that stuff?

        Scott Harris left and ran the Tigers Baseball Ops. No one knew abut his ” business acumen”. How’s that worked out?.

        And how about last years WS champion Texas Rangers that hired former pitcher Chris Young to run their baseball ops.

        Get a life, man.

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    • RunDMC

      9 months ago

      Read: Assistant to the Regional General Manager

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      • Acoss1331

        9 months ago

        Dwight Schrute has entered the chat!

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        • Non Roster Invitee

          9 months ago

          This position screams Scott Sharp

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    • User 4245925809

      9 months ago

      It means he’s looking for a scapegoat to point fingers at if/when something goes wrong. lots of teams now have these super positions, but “think” Theo epstein at Chicago may have been the 1st, kind of insulated himself for his errors by hiring a GM, taking his orders.. Cowardice is my 2c. Want to run the team? Take the blame, but like so many things today, people hide behind masks, others etc..

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  4. solaris602

    9 months ago

    I think Sabean would only be interested in a POBO position at this point, and God help us all if Bobby Evans returns to his role as GM.

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    • layventsky

      9 months ago

      When Evans was GM before, was everything truly his fault or was Sabean pulling the strings?

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  5. themightygin

    9 months ago

    If Posey is the POBO he just signed up to be “public facing” whether he wants to or not.

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    • themightygin

      9 months ago

      I say this not really knowing much about Posey’s personality, but this really reads like “I want to play armchair GM from my Penthouse but I don’t want to deal with the Plebes.”

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  6. amk1920

    9 months ago

    Logan White would be a great GM. He knows how to find high school talent needed to bring an organization from mid to top tier

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  7. cmanson

    9 months ago

    its only fitting that the Giants hire the first openly transgender quadruple amputee as GM…being a minority isn’t necessary, but highly preferred.

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    • gravel

      9 months ago

      I’m not even offended. Instead I am surprised an internet provider offers service to that rock you live under.

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  8. John Bird

    9 months ago

    I think they need someone from outside the organization who can objectively assess the talent on hand including prospects. Felt like the prospects were overrated by the organization during the last regime.

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  9. pogo

    9 months ago

    I want to be a POBO…. but I’m a POGO

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