Posey’s first offseason as president of baseball operations headlined by additions of Adames, Verlander
Jayden Willey, 8, of Fresno who plays baseball as a third basemen and catcher, gets an autograph from the San Francisco Giants’ Willy Adames during the 2025 Giants & KNBR FanFest Tour – San Jose at San Pedro Square Market in downtown San Jose, Calif.
, on Saturday, Jan. 25, 2025. From the perspective of roster composition, the San Francisco Giants had a relatively mild offseason. They added Willy Adames and Justin Verlander. They lost Blake Snell, Michael Conforto and Taylor Rogers. Their roster retains much of last year’s core.Buster Posey and Zack Minasian are now running the show. Bob Melvin’s coaching staff looks remarkably different. And, yes, there are a couple new faces who will don the orange and black. With pitchers and catchers set to report to Scottsdale, Arizona today, let’s summarize all that’s gone down since the last time the Giants played a game:San Francisco Giants new president of baseball operations Buster Posey speaks during a news in San Francisco, Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2024. Immediately following their final game of the 2024 season, the Giants fired Farhan Zaidi as the team’s president of baseball operations and replaced him with Buster Posey all in one fell swoop. The move set the stage for the ensuing front office shakeup.to serve as his general manager. With Minasian being elevated from vice president of pro scouting, the Giants hired Hadi Raad as the team’s director of pro scouting. Additionally, San Francisco hired Pike Goldschmidt as the team’s director of baseball strategy andPete Putila, the team’s GM under Zaidi, subsequently left San Francisco to join the Atlanta Braves. Putila would be joined in Atlanta by Michael Schwartze, who was the Giants’ director of baseball analytics.San Francisco Giants coach Alyssa Nakken blows a bubble during the Washington Nationals game, Wednesday, April 10, 2024, at Oracle Park in San Francisco, Calif. The shakeup to San Francisco’s coaching staff wasn’t as drastic as that of the front office, but there were notable moving parts on this front as well.as pitching coach following one season while Justin Viele and Pedro Guerrero, the team’s assistant hitting coaches, joined the Texas Rangers and Miami Marlins, respectively.The San Fransisco Giants’ Willy Adames puts on a Giants jersey before signing autographs during the 2025 Giants & KNBR FanFest Tour – San Jose at San Pedro Square Market in downtown San Jose, Calif., on Saturday, Jan. 25, 2025. The Giants’ biggest need heading into the offseason was shortstop, and the team addressed the position by signing Willy Adames to a, one where he set career highs in homers , steals , RBIs , runs and hits . Prior to acquiring Adames, the Giants used 13 shortstops from 2022-24. That group produced 7.1 WAR, according to FanGraphs, which ranks 20th among all teams over the last three seasons., who shocked the baseball industry by signing a six-year, $210 million deal with the Arizona Diamondbacks, but signed future Hall of Famer Justin Verlander to a one-year, $17 million deal. Verlander, who will be on 42, begins his time in San Francisco fresh off the worst season of his career, posting a 5.48 ERA over 17 starts. Results aside, Verlander’sSan Francisco Giants pitcher Taylor Rogers throws against the Milwaukee Brewers during the ninth inning of a baseball game Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2024, in San Francisco. and cash to the Cincinnati Reds, breaking up the Rogers twins in the process. The return for the southpaw was minor-league reliever Braxton Roxby, who hasn’t pitched above Double-A. According to The Athletic, the Giants sent over $6 million of the $12 million that Rogers is set to make. While the move saves San Francisco a couple million dollars, the team is unlikely to allocate those resources elsewhere.SF Giants, Sacramento fans try to make sense of A’s stadium juggle as Manfred lauds ballpark progress With Rogers gone, the Giants enter spring training with Erik Miller as the only left-handed reliever on the 40-man roster. Along with Rogers, the Giants traded catcher Blake Sabol to the Boston Red Sox and right-hander William Kempner to the Miami Marlins, both in exchange for international bonus pool money. That extra international bonus pool money helped the Giants landed shortstop Josuar Gonzalez, the second-best prospect of the 2025 international signing class behind Roki Sasaki. And speaking on the subject of Sasaki…Andrew Friedman, LA Dodgers President of Baseball Operations presents pitcher pitcher Blake Snell with his Dodger jersey during a press conference on Tuesday, December 3, 2024. The Giants had a fine offseason; the Dodgers’ offseason had the masses clamoring that they ruined baseball., Michael Conforto, Tanner Scott, Kirby Yates and Hyeseong Kim; re-signed Teoscar Hernández, Blake Treinen and Kiké Hernandez; and signed Tommy Edman to an extension. On Tuesday, they re-signed Clayton Kershaw, too. Along with the players,, fired as the Giants’ president of baseball operations in September, is reportedly re-joining Los Angeles as a special advisor as well. Baseball has not had a back-to-back champion since the Yankees rattled off three straight titles in 1998, 1999 and 2000. 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