Farhan Zaidi

And the only rule was that the Giants couldn't screw it up, say, by banking too much on the health of a previously injured pitcher or landing a pitcher who would have a miserable first half.

This was the miracle of Farhan Zaidi when it worked.

Free agent pitchers aren't supposed to be the best part of a team.

For a couple years, though, the Giants made it look easy.

He was with Michael and I on the Utah trip.

Yeah, so I think the sort of plans that had been approved by the Mark Walters guys, that's really Farhan Zaidi, and he's acting as Mark's representative.

Plans that have been put in motion are continuing to stay in motion.

I don't think anything's freezing, and I think maybe it's capped.

If you down with the Dodgers, F you too.

Farhan Zaidi, F you too, says the 925.

Another 925 says, hey, I'm 51 years old.

I've been listening to KMBR since I was in high school.

He's playing great.

That's not the world we landed in, but I don't think Farhan Zaidi would have, uh,

wanted to do such a deal.

I don't think he wanted to hand out no trade clauses.

You know, Kim Eng breaking the glass ceiling with the Marlins being hired a few years ago, but then lost her job.

Farhan Zaidi, who ran the Giants for a little while.

But There are some prominent people moving up the chain, not just Jared Banner, which is certainly a good sign, right? The Orioles have Eve Rosenbaum as essentially their number three in command as one of their assistant GMs.

Last offseason, the Orioles had serious interest in Josh Barfield, former big leaguer who was the White Sox assistant GM.

But you can step from the outside and be like, that doesn't sound like Dave Dombrowski.

So do they just list the most analytics people on their website? But to the greater point, like, yeah, they went from Farhan Zaidi to Buster Posey.

And that's going to be a massive change and obviously a change.

Like, I don't think it was...

And, like, there's a type, right, of, like, guys that Buster Posey likes.

And you can see that.

And I think you can also go back and say there was a type of guy that Farhan Zaidi liked.

And Farhan was, you know, somebody like Turner Hill, like Farhan's literally looking at a spreadsheet.

So I feel like if we're going to evaluate Buster Posey, We have to evaluate these.

And I know Matt Chapman was technically in the Farhan Zaidi era.

No, it

was a Buster signing.

Agreed, agreed.

But like

in order for them to turn into wins, you need another, you need to give them four more seasons, which like we gave to Farhan Zaidi.

Okay.