Earlier this month, Susan Slusser of the San Francisco Chronicle wrote about three potential candidates for the Giants’ open common supervisor place: Athletics assistant GM Billy Owens, Giants assistant GM Jeremy Shelley, and former Giants GM Bobby Evans. Nonetheless, she additionally famous that the search was simply starting and was more likely to go effectively past these three preliminary names. Certainly, the record is already rising. On Tuesday, Slusser reported that the group “seems to have focused” De Jon Watson, previously the director of participant growth for the Nationals and presently a particular adviser for the Astros. She additionally names Logan White, a long-time particular advisor within the Padres entrance workplace and previously a long-tenured govt with the Dodgers, as a candidate for the place and provides that Royals assistant GM Scott Sharp can be “on the Giants’ radar.”
Moreover, Slusser emphasised that Evans isn’t essentially a candidate to reclaim his job because the Giants GM, a job he held for 4 seasons from 2015-18. It’s not but clear what sort of entrance workplace job the group is contemplating him for; it might be extra of an advisory position than an official place. Equally, she mentions that Evans’s predecessor, three-time World Collection winner Brian Sabean, could be “welcomed again” to the membership in an advisory capability. It’s unclear, nevertheless, if Sabean has expressed any curiosity in leaving his present advisory place with the Yankees to return to the Bay Space.
Simply as attention-grabbing because the rising record of potential entrance workplace hires are the notable names to whom the Giants haven’t but reached out. Slusser reviews that the group has not been involved with former Twins GM Thad Levine or former Marlins GM Kim Ng. Regardless of president of baseball operations Buster Posey’s restricted entrance workplace expertise, the Giants aren’t essentially focused on hiring a veteran GM to work alongside him. As a substitute, Posey suggests they may look to rent somebody with a powerful scouting background, and Slusser provides the GM will almost definitely tackle extra of a “public-facing” position whereas Posey oversees transactions and hirings.
There’s good purpose to imagine neither Levine nor Ng would have a lot curiosity in taking up that sort of position. Ng turned down her facet of a mutual possibility with the Marlins final offseason as a result of she didn’t need to work because the second-in-command beneath a newly employed POBO. Levine’s causes for leaving the Twins aren’t fairly as clear, although it’s straightforward to think about he’d like an opportunity to be a group’s chief baseball decision-maker after working beneath Derek Falvey for eight seasons. With out studying an excessive amount of right into a playful comparability, it might need been telling when Levine likened his position with the Twins to Mary Poppins “singing within the background.” Maybe he’d like an opportunity to sing middle stage, and it doesn’t seem to be he’d get that chance in San Francisco.
