San Francisco Giants 2019 Off-season Thread

Originally posted by Niners99:

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

If that was the case he wouldn't be a finalist. I just hope it's not him

Originally posted by FaTaL:

Harris has an impressive CV. He was director of baseball ops for Cubs for 5 years before promoted to assistant GM. He also has worked for Nats, Reds and MLB as coordinator of minor league ops. Northwestern/Kellogg guy. https://t.co/bvTjlolX8E

— Andrew Baggarly (@extrabaggs) November 6, 2019

Harris is trying to complete the Dusty Baker cycle.

Originally posted by FaTaL:

It appears the Giants are taking bleacher seats out in right-center to make room for new bullpens (also Topgolf at Oracle Park is cool) pic.twitter.com/zgVtzyuGUD

— Alex Pavlovic (@PavlovicNBCS) November 7, 2019

I personally don't like the idea of removing any seating from the ballpark for the bullpens. I guess that won't matter anyways until they start selling out again though

Originally posted by wailers15:
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.

Keith Law said he didn't do anything wrong. He reported the allegations to the Dodgers higher ups. It's on the higher ups to report any misconduct to MLB.

Originally posted by FaTaL:

It appears the Giants are taking bleacher seats out in right-center to make room for new bullpens (also Topgolf at Oracle Park is cool) pic.twitter.com/zgVtzyuGUD

— Alex Pavlovic (@PavlovicNBCS) November 7, 2019

What, are they going to put both bullpens out there?

Originally posted by Niners99:

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.

and its not like they had no talent, watch Girardi do way more in a year than Kapler did with that talent

Originally posted by SFrush:

Originally posted by wailers15:

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.

Keith Law said he didn't do anything wrong. He reported the allegations to the Dodgers higher ups. It's on the higher ups to report any misconduct to MLB.

And if the higher ups never report any misconduct you just sit back and chill??? Nah, I ain't buying it. That's the Joe Paterno route man. It doesn't smell right at all.

Originally posted by SFGiant49ers:

Originally posted by FaTaL:

It appears the Giants are taking bleacher seats out in right-center to make room for new bullpens (also Topgolf at Oracle Park is cool) pic.twitter.com/zgVtzyuGUD

— Alex Pavlovic (@PavlovicNBCS) November 7, 2019

I personally don't like the idea of removing any seating from the ballpark for the bullpens. I guess that won't matter anyways until they start selling out again though

They can still put the pen underneath the seats. That area is fkn huge under there. I don't see this being a problem at all if they're engineers are on point. There's a s**tload of room underneath those bleachers to put two pens and not remove the seats. Just depends on the direction they go.

Or they can do what KC did is put a double pen back there. Or is that the Angels?? Again they're are a lot of ways they can go about this. It won't be taking away a drastic amount of seats though. I don't see that happening.

Unless the sign Kapler then ... blow it up

Originally posted by wailers15:

Originally posted by SFGiant49ers:

Originally posted by FaTaL:

It appears the Giants are taking bleacher seats out in right-center to make room for new bullpens (also Topgolf at Oracle Park is cool) pic.twitter.com/zgVtzyuGUD

— Alex Pavlovic (@PavlovicNBCS) November 7, 2019

I personally don't like the idea of removing any seating from the ballpark for the bullpens. I guess that won't matter anyways until they start selling out again though

They can still put the pen underneath the seats. That area is fkn huge under there. I don't see this being a problem at all if they're engineers are on point. There's a s**tload of room underneath those bleachers to put two pens and not remove the seats. Just depends on the direction they go.

Or they can do what KC did is put a double pen back there. Or is that the Angels?? Again they're are a lot of ways they can go about this. It won't be taking away a drastic amount of seats though. I don't see that happening.

Unless the sign Kapler then ... blow it up

What you mean by double pen? I know in Philly they have them kind of stacked. One is higher up than the other and they are right next to each other I believe

Apparently we are also looking Pete Putila from Houston for GM. Thoughts?

Originally posted by SFGiant49ers:

Originally posted by wailers15:

Originally posted by SFGiant49ers:

Originally posted by FaTaL:

It appears the Giants are taking bleacher seats out in right-center to make room for new bullpens (also Topgolf at Oracle Park is cool) pic.twitter.com/zgVtzyuGUD

— Alex Pavlovic (@PavlovicNBCS) November 7, 2019

I personally don't like the idea of removing any seating from the ballpark for the bullpens. I guess that won't matter anyways until they start selling out again though

They can still put the pen underneath the seats. That area is fkn huge under there. I don't see this being a problem at all if they're engineers are on point. There's a s**tload of room underneath those bleachers to put two pens and not remove the seats. Just depends on the direction they go.

Or they can do what KC did is put a double pen back there. Or is that the Angels?? Again they're are a lot of ways they can go about this. It won't be taking away a drastic amount of seats though. I don't see that happening.

Unless the sign Kapler then ... blow it up

What you mean by double pen? I know in Philly they have them kind of stacked. One is higher up than the other and they are right next to each other I believe

Yeah that. Angels have it too. A few teams have this style.

Apparently the Braves are making Bumgarner their top priority, and will contact him immediately after free agency starts and get a deal done. Looks like Bum is gone.

Originally posted by SFGiant49ers:

Originally posted by FaTaL:

It appears the Giants are taking bleacher seats out in right-center to make room for new bullpens (also Topgolf at Oracle Park is cool) pic.twitter.com/zgVtzyuGUD

— Alex Pavlovic (@PavlovicNBCS) November 7, 2019

I personally don't like the idea of removing any seating from the ballpark for the bullpens. I guess that won't matter anyways until they start selling out again though

don't worry guise. Garce guaranteed us they were moving the fences in to add the pen so this cant be true

Originally posted by Niners99:

Apparently the Braves are making Bumgarner their top priority, and will contact him immediately after free agency starts and get a deal done. Looks like Bum is gone.