The Giants say that franchise icon Buster Posey will be the new president of baseball operations after parting ways with Farhan Zaidi following a disappointing season.
The San Francisco Giants fired president of baseball operations Farhan Zaidi on Monday and replaced him with Buster Posey, the three-time World Series-winning catcher and franchise icon who had taken on an increasingly large front-office role in recent years.
The Giants, nevertheless, saw him as the right candidate to replace Zaidi, 47, who had taken over in San Francisco in 2019 and over the past three seasons oversaw mediocre results that led to his dismissal. Posey's involvement in the six-year, $151 million contract extension for Matt Chapman earlier this month signaled a shift in the Giants' operations, though it was not clear that he would take over were Zaidi fired. San Francisco had backed Zaidi regularly, giving him a two-year contract extension last year and, over the winter, giving him the leeway to guarantee more than $400 million in free agent deals and push the team's payroll past the luxury-tax threshold.
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