San Francisco Giants 2019 Off-season Thread

I really hope we bring back Bum, Will smith, Panda and Pillar. Z has alot of big decisions to make.

And how about this crazy idea: Would be a promotion for both Grifol and Espada.
Manager: Espada
Bench coach: Grifol
Front office advisor: Kepler

BamBam in talks with the Marlins to join their staff. (This would be the 2nd coach to leave from Bochy's staff)

The Marlins are in talks with current Giants bench coach Hensley Meulens about a role on their staff in 2020, Jon Heyman of MLB Network tweets. Meulens has been told he's not a finalist in San Francisco's search for a new manager, per the report, and it seems there's now a chance the organization will lose him entirely. SiriusXM's Craig Mish adds that Meulens would likely step into the role of hitting coach if the two sides do work out a deal. He'd pair with bench coach and "offensive coordinator" James Rowson, recently hired away from the Twins, to work on reshaping the organization's approach at the plate.

Meulens, 52, has spent the past decade on the Giants' coaching staff under the recently retired Bruce Bochy. He's been bench coach for the past couple of seasons but previously served as the club's hitting coach and is also responsible for outfield defense and positioning instruction. Meulens was the Giants' hitting coach for each of their three World Series titles in 2010, 2012 and 2014. He also has five years of experience as a minor league hitting coach and served as the manager for Team Netherlands in both the 2013 and 2017 World Baseball Classics.

A native of Willemstad, Curacao, Meulens would bring an important bilingual presence to a Marlins club that has a number of key players from Venezuela, Colombia, the Dominican Republic and Cuba both on the big league roster and rising through a rapidly improving farm system. Meulens played parts of seven seasons in the Majors — teaming with recently extended Marlins manager Don Mattingly as a Yankee from 1989-93 — and also played professionally in Japan (1994-96), Korea (2000) and Mexico (2001-02).

Source: Steve Adams

Meulens should have been fired years ago. No big loss, IMO.

Originally posted by TheXFactor:

I really hope we bring back Bum, Will smith, Panda and Pillar. Z has alot of big decisions to make.

And how about this crazy idea: Would be a promotion for both Grifol and Espada.
Manager: Espada
Bench coach: Grifol
Front office advisor: Kepler

Get Kapler out of there for the love!!

😂

Originally posted by FaTaL:

Per source, a new candidate has emerged in the San Francisco Giants search for a new Manager : Los Angeles Dodgers Field Coordinator Clayton McCullough.

— Craig Mish (@CraigMish) October 31, 2019

😂

lol Field Coordinator sounds like the head groundskeeper.

Do we have a manager yet?

Originally posted by mayo49:
Do we have a manager yet?

Yes. Garce.

Originally posted by VaBeachNiner:

Originally posted by mayo49:

Do we have a manager yet?

Yes. Garce.

It pays to have friends in high places.

Originally posted by TheXFactor:

I really hope we bring back Bum, Will smith, Panda and Pillar. Z has alot of big decisions to make.

And how about this crazy idea: Would be a promotion for both Grifol and Espada.
Manager: Espada
Bench coach: Grifol
Front office advisor: Kepler

Didn't panda have tommy john surgery? Without the dh I don't see him being signed for a while

Originally posted by FaTaL:

Originally posted by TheXFactor:

I really hope we bring back Bum, Will smith, Panda and Pillar. Z has alot of big decisions to make.

And how about this crazy idea: Would be a promotion for both Grifol and Espada.
Manager: Espada
Bench coach: Grifol
Front office advisor: Kepler

Didn't panda have tommy john surgery? Without the dh I don't see him being signed for a while

Someone suggested the Giants sign him to a one year minimum deal to rehab with the team, and then work an extension if all goes well.

Probably wont happen, considering Bochy is gone, but they could use the leadership and energy for a rebuilding team.

Originally posted by Niners99:
Someone suggested the Giants sign him to a one year minimum deal to rehab with the team, and then work an extension if all goes well.

Probably wont happen, considering Bochy is gone, but they could use the leadership and energy for a rebuilding team.

not without bochy there

I need some Giants managerial news.

Originally posted by mayo49:
I need some Giants managerial news.

I'm more interested in the player news then a puppet