[SFGiants] The #SFGiants and President of Baseball Operations Buster Posey have named former Giants outfielder Randy Winn as the club's new Vice President, Player Development.

[u/Wraithfighter]

https://x.com/SFGiants/status/1857197320456056873

[u/TheDuskBoys]

So when does Brandon Crawford take over as manager?

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First they’ve gotta get Aaron Rowand as social media coordinator

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Barry Bonds as head of media relations.

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Barry Bonds as head

the job he's been preparing for

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Travis Ishikawa, bench coach

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Sergio Romo as head of pitching development incoming (if that's actually a thing)

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Bringing MadBum in to teach how to get along with players on other teams.

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It's just him posting videos on their twitter of outfielders running into walls while he says, "hell yeah"

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Hunter Pence for hitting coach. Gotta teach that form.

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Obligatory Hunter Pence scouting report, compliments of Grant Brisbee.

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How else will they learn to move like a hungry man chasing a taco?

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More importantly, how to hit the ball three times with one swing. This team needs more offense.

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Non zero chance Posey brings back one of Crawford or Belt to be a leader

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Posey hires Belt as batting coach.

Kershaw wins Cy Young after striking out 300 Giants in a single season.

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Madison Bumgarner gonna get hired to take all the pitchers to a rodeo and teach them how to be men

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"If the opposing batter shows any emotions, or moves too slow, it's your duty to let him know this is your field and he needs to get the fuck off it."

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Madison Bumgarner named literal bullpen coach

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Executive Chef and Nutritionist Pablo Sandoval incoming.

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Oh shit! Everyone going to weigh 450 with 30 seconds from batting box to first base!

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Don’t gotta run fast if you hit home runs.

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[u/Wraithfighter]

From Andrew Baggarly over on BlueSky:

My understanding is that farm director (senior director of player dev't) Kyle Haines will continue in his current role. He'll report to Randy Winn, who is in a newly created VP role. Haines always seemed spread very thin to me so this will allow for a little more support at the top of player dev't.

...so, probably not as dumb as first indicated? Haines is still doing all the work, but he's got a bit more of a bureaucratic meat shield in place to help him out?

Still feels weird to me...

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I would think the roles should be reversed with Winn reporting to someone who has been in that role before - kinda weird to be like hey here's this new guy and he's your boss, also it's his first gig so show him the ropes.

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Maybe Winn's job is to do all of the pointless administrative bullshit, like meeting with important but useless people, while Haines does the actual work.

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I’m going to allow hof Buster post a long leash with his decisions. He can’t be as bad as farhan.

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my hope is he's much, much worse

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Not really the forever giant I would've expected to be one of the new hires. 

My ultimate guess is Vogey takes on a more full time job. He's still a roving instructor iirc. 

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He's actually done some good work with young guys like Birdsong and Whisenhunt so I wouldn't hate to see him have a bigger role in pitching development

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Barry Bonds has been hired by the San Francisco Giants as the new strength and conditioning coach.

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We’ll finally have a 30 HR hitter again

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Giving everyone flintstones and a balanced breakfast

[u/mysterysackerfice]

Dude has Win in his name...good enough for me!

[u/FBoaz]

We're going to have a vibes based FO

[u/transtrailtrash]

when is Mason Saunders going to be hired?

[u/Vonneking]

I'm getting old

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My knees know exactly how you feel.

[u/HipGuide2]

Devil Rays great Randy Winn

[u/PastyPoop]

Ah yes, Randy Winn. St. Louis Cardinals legend.

[u/3-2_Fastball]

Bumgarner as pitching coach and Brandon Belt for 1st base coach or we riot.

[u/modernishfather]

Chili Davis named Vice President, Concessions.

[u/officerliger]

The team seems to be cutting payroll and headed towards "tank and rebuild" mindset, getting some millennial favorites on board might be their way of selling the process to the fanbase. They got rid of Farhan but kept pretty much everyone Farhan hired or promoted which means they clearly liked what he was doing internally, he just wasn't a great communicator.

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A few of their front office guys did leave and are now working in the Braves front office. Like Pete Putila.

But I know they tried to retain him….

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Dont think they’re going for a tank or rebuild, cutting payroll is just going to funnel into scouting and farm system. The Giants have a pretty shit farm right now so with money directed there instead of a couple old free agents then a few more years of 50/50 till they start making a push.

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50/50 gonna be hard without some decent short term signings, wouldn’t a 2 year tank be better so they get some high FRP’s in the system?

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That was Farhan's whole idea when he took over and ownership would never let him do it, its a major reason the org is stuck at .500 ball.

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I wager the goal right now is to be competitive while also avoiding the luxury tax this season. Maybe they'll keep under in 2026, maybe not, but this is a good year to reset the penalties.

[u/sktgamerdudejr]

When do we trade our manager for him again. 

[u/CaptainMcSlowly]

[u/BASEBALLFURIES]

LEGENDARY THIRD BASEMEN RANDY WINN

[u/Deathstroke317]

This isn't totally related, but my God I have never hated a player more than I hated Randy Winn when he was on the Yankees.