[lex24]

I’m so unimpressed with Zaidi’s people skills. John Shea at the Chronicle interviewed JD Davis and reports that Davis has had no contact from management since the Chapman signing. This is getting reported right after Crawford publicly zinged Zaidi for telling him he could come to spring training as him a non-roster invitee. The old regime certainly had its flaws, but respecting the veterans wasn’t one of them. Letting Panda have a few at bats in camp isn’t going to paper over what now looks like a fundamental leadership problem. I mean, we recently found out that Zaidi hired a dude who preferred to communicate by text.

I’m contrasting this in my head with the 49ers situation when Trey Lance lost the backup job to Sam Darnold and Shanahan offered to trade Lance to get him into a better situation and also publicly blamed himself for Lance not developing as planned.

Agree.  Completely.

[lex24]

I’m so unimpressed with Zaidi’s people skills. John Shea at the Chronicle interviewed JD Davis and reports that Davis has had no contact from management since the Chapman signing. This is getting reported right after Crawford publicly zinged Zaidi for telling him he could come to spring training as him a non-roster invitee. The old regime certainly had its flaws, but respecting the veterans wasn’t one of them. Letting Panda have a few at bats in camp isn’t going to paper over what now looks like a fundamental leadership problem. I mean, we recently found out that Zaidi hired a dude who preferred to communicate by text.

I’m contrasting this in my head with the 49ers situation when Trey Lance lost the backup job to Sam Darnold and Shanahan offered to trade Lance to get him into a better situation and also publicly blamed himself for Lance not developing as planned.

Agree.  Completely.