San Francisco Giants 2019 Off-season Thread

What are these controversial things about Kapler?

According to the ringer plenty apparently:

The Phillies took a gamble on Kapler and stayed in the pot longer than was tenable. Even after the 2018 team went from first place on August 12 to 10 games out by season's end, a stupefying collapse that coincided with a rapidly toxifying clubhouse atmosphere. Even after reports surfaced last winter that during Kapler's time as the Dodgers' farm director, he'd failed to report accounts of sexual assault and harassment by his players to MLB or police, and that he was being investigated for violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act committed during his time in L.A. These revelations should have been troubling enough to sink even an established and successful manager, and yet the Phillies stood by him.

https://www.theringer.com/mlb/2019/10/10/20908272/phillies-fire-manager-gabe-kapler

Originally posted by VaBeachNiner:

According to the ringer plenty apparently:

The Phillies took a gamble on Kapler and stayed in the pot longer than was tenable. Even after the 2018 team went from first place on August 12 to 10 games out by season's end, a stupefying collapse that coincided with a rapidly toxifying clubhouse atmosphere. Even after reports surfaced last winter that during Kapler's time as the Dodgers' farm director, he'd failed to report accounts of sexual assault and harassment by his players to MLB or police, and that he was being investigated for violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act committed during his time in L.A. These revelations should have been troubling enough to sink even an established and successful manager, and yet the Phillies stood by him.

https://www.theringer.com/mlb/2019/10/10/20908272/phillies-fire-manager-gabe-kapler

Sounds like a 💩, I hope they stay far away from him

Apparently we are also looking at Cubs Assistant GM Scott Harris.

The Giants' search for a general manager has been a quiet one thus far, due in no small part to the fact that president of baseball operations Farhan Zaidi is already fixed at the top of the ops hierarchy. (Indeed, he has operated without a GM since his hiring.) But it's still an important executive position that offers the San Francisco organization an angle to bring aboard some new talent.

Among the candidates for the Giants GM post is Scott Harris, according to Ken Rosenthal of The Athletic (via Twitter). Harris currently serves as an assistant GM with the Cubs — an organization that has quite a few well-titled cooks in the kitchen. That's not to diminish Harris. The Athletic's Sahadev Sharma profiled him last year in a subscription post, painting him as a hard-working and intelligent rising star in the game.

It seems there are others also under consideration, though identities have yet to be reported. Kerry Crowley of the Mercury News recently ran down some potential candidates. In particular, he noted that A's GM Billy Owens — Zaidi's former colleague — has interest in the opening. Owens was said to be under consideration this time last year, but Zaidi decided to go without a clear #2 in his first season at the helm.

It is still not evident what kind of timeline the process will take, or really where it stands at the moment. It seems reasonable to presume that the Giants (and the teams currently employing the candidates) will want to resolve things in relatively short order with the offseason upon us.

Source: Jeff Todd

Originally posted by FaTaL:

Educated guess: The longer the #SFGiants' managerial search goes, the more I feel they're serious about Kapler, whom Zaidi trusts, likes. But in light of the L.A. events, a Kapler hire would require more internal discussion to anticipate the criticism and be ready to answer it...

— Henry Schulman (@hankschulman) November 5, 2019

Just announce it already. It's obvious at this point he's the choice.

Originally posted by SFrush:

Originally posted by FaTaL:

Educated guess: The longer the #SFGiants' managerial search goes, the more I feel they're serious about Kapler, whom Zaidi trusts, likes. But in light of the L.A. events, a Kapler hire would require more internal discussion to anticipate the criticism and be ready to answer it...

— Henry Schulman (@hankschulman) November 5, 2019

Just announce it already. It's obvious at this point he's the choice.

SF is very PR conscious. If this move alienates fans, ownership isn't going to sign off on it.

Now John Shea is reporting that Kapler, Espada, and Quatraro are the finalists, not Grifol.

They're delaying the Kapler announcement cause he put on some weight and needs to cut so he can take shirtless photos when he's announced as the Giants new manager.

Originally posted by Niners99:
Now John Shea is reporting that Kapler, Espada, and Quatraro are the finalists, not Grifol.

just go Espada and end this s**t already. Starting to believe with all this time theyre really leaning Kapler

Originally posted by FredFlintstone:

Originally posted by Niners99:
Now John Shea is reporting that Kapler, Espada, and Quatraro are the finalists, not Grifol.

just go Espada and end this s**t already. Starting to believe with all this time theyre really leaning Kapler

Kerry Crowley thinks Farhan is taking his time to do more background work on Espada and Quatraro. In the end I still think Kapler will be the choice.

Originally posted by FredFlintstone:

Originally posted by Niners99:

Now John Shea is reporting that Kapler, Espada, and Quatraro are the finalists, not Grifol.

just go Espada and end this s**t already. Starting to believe with all this time theyre really leaning Kapler

If they pick Kapler 90% of the fanbase will be pissed.

One thing that ive been skeptical about with Farhan is his apparent bias towards players/coaches that he's worked with before.

Originally posted by Hopper:

Originally posted by FredFlintstone:

Originally posted by Niners99:
Now John Shea is reporting that Kapler, Espada, and Quatraro are the finalists, not Grifol.

just go Espada and end this s**t already. Starting to believe with all this time theyre really leaning Kapler

Kerry Crowley thinks Farhan is taking his time to do more background work on Espada and Quatraro. In the end I still think Kapler will be the choice.

I dont have any reason other than a gut feeling that it will be Espada.

Originally posted by Ninerjohn:

Originally posted by Hopper:

Originally posted by FredFlintstone:

Originally posted by Niners99:

Now John Shea is reporting that Kapler, Espada, and Quatraro are the finalists, not Grifol.

just go Espada and end this s**t already. Starting to believe with all this time theyre really leaning Kapler

Kerry Crowley thinks Farhan is taking his time to do more background work on Espada and Quatraro. In the end I still think Kapler will be the choice.

I dont have any reason other than a gut feeling that it will be Espada.

Same. Ive felt that way since Espada was named a candidate. It just feels like the right hire for some reason. It sounds like all things being equal, Farhan prefers Kapler, but hes too high risk.

This hire will probably define Farhan's tenure here, and Kapler just has too many cons. He did such a poor job in Philly.

So Kapler is cool with rape.... great. He does have that American Psycho vibe going on.

I don't see it being Kapler.

Oh man a rough go to the start of the off-season if indeed Kapler is the pick.