10-16-2023, 06:31 AM
(10-16-2023, 05:27 AM)Mick Wrote: Basically, every Giants free agent turned to mush. Every. Single. One. It says something that two of the mushees (Conforto and Manaea) are rumored to want out. Man, do I hope they leave.
It also says something that Farhan Zaidi has made clear that having a manager "with social charm" is one of the priorities. If you think about it, Carlos Correa probably was willing to sign with Giants because the team's "numbers over people" mindset resonated with him from his time in Houston.
All the other top free agents seem to have been turned off by the cold, nerdy, plastic personalities of Farhan and Gabe, and the Giants wouldn't spend what was needed to overcome that. I still don't like how Gabe was fired before the season finished. I thought that was a petty move that accomplished absolutely nothing other than make the Giants look silly. But, in a roundabout way, if there is currency to Gabe turning off some of the better free agents, and then not connecting with players during the season, there was cause to fire him.