[Mick]

Andrew Baggarly on the end of season state of affairs:
https://theathletic.com/4927750/2023/10/...riorities/

Some of the more horrific things seen in that article and comments:

- The data analysis and support staff is bigger than the team itself, including 8 software engineers to develop proprietary software to crunch numbers - all for 79-83. Imagine how terrible they would have been without any quants.

- Farhan suggests and Baggarly makes point that the Giants were "toxic" to free agents, so they want a charming and charismatic person to be manager now, to get past the geek/automaton with Farhan and Gabe.

- Farhan says winning would draw fans to the stadium, but ignores the fact the Giants were 17th in attendance when they didn't really fall out of contention until late August (it's the lack of connection to the players and boring baseball).

- Farhan was allowed to hire Gabe on his own, now Greg Johnson, Larry Baer, and Buster Posey will have a say. Posey may be a great baseball guy, but this is terrible for accountability. Farhan was told to fire Gabe, now he needs to get approval on his manager hire? WTF is in charge?

- The Giants were selling DODGERS apparel when the Dodgers were playing at Oracle!!!!

My understanding is that Logan Webb will also have a say in hiring the new manager. And I'm guessing his unhappy comments directly impacted Kapler's unanticipated shortened tenure...

[Mick]

Andrew Baggarly on the end of season state of affairs:
https://theathletic.com/4927750/2023/10/...riorities/

Some of the more horrific things seen in that article and comments:

- The data analysis and support staff is bigger than the team itself, including 8 software engineers to develop proprietary software to crunch numbers - all for 79-83. Imagine how terrible they would have been without any quants.

- Farhan suggests and Baggarly makes point that the Giants were "toxic" to free agents, so they want a charming and charismatic person to be manager now, to get past the geek/automaton with Farhan and Gabe.

- Farhan says winning would draw fans to the stadium, but ignores the fact the Giants were 17th in attendance when they didn't really fall out of contention until late August (it's the lack of connection to the players and boring baseball).

- Farhan was allowed to hire Gabe on his own, now Greg Johnson, Larry Baer, and Buster Posey will have a say. Posey may be a great baseball guy, but this is terrible for accountability. Farhan was told to fire Gabe, now he needs to get approval on his manager hire? WTF is in charge?

- The Giants were selling DODGERS apparel when the Dodgers were playing at Oracle!!!!

My understanding is that Logan Webb will also have a say in hiring the new manager. And I'm guessing his unhappy comments directly impacted Kapler's unanticipated shortened tenure...