https://x.com/SFGiants/status/1857197320456056873?s=19

The #SFGiants and President of Baseball Operations Buster Posey have named former Giants outfielder Randy Winn as the club's new Vice President, Player Development.

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  2. We really hiring anyone now

    Edit: Since I’m being downvoted, the last thing I would expect from Posey, who has no front office or player development experience, is hire someone else who has no experience.

    I’m very surprised this is the move he has decided to go with. Was there really no one else with experience within the organization or outside of it?

  5. [From Andrew Baggarly over on BlueSky](https://bsky.app/profile/andrewbaggarly.bsky.social/post/3lawyqqex222z):

    > My understanding is that farm director (senior director of player dev’t) Kyle Haines will continue in his current role. He’ll report to Randy Winn, who is in a newly created VP role. Haines always seemed spread very thin to me so this will allow for a little more support at the top of player dev’t.

    Definitely not sold on this hire, but its not actually replacing anyone that’s doing any work right now, might just be that the department could use a figurehead to handle some of the bureaucratic stuff.

    Still, would definitely prefer if someone with a lot of experience with scouting and player development were to be the VP of Player Development, ya know? Just seems like the smart move.

  13. I like his takes on the post game wraps but this hire is concerning and I’m not sure I’m liking the direction the front office is taking. Maybe they’re just viewing this year as a stop gap while everyone gets up to speed and Posey wants some familiar faces around for the transition.

  17. I just hope Buster doesn’t get a resume mailed to him from someone named Zarhan Faidi for a position in the organization.

  20. seems like a brainy good dude, hope he can thrive and get our farm back in a place of at least competence, the zach wheller buster madbum etc etc days

    The fact that he isnt a hotshot/amazing commentator gives me hope that he is a moneyball analytical genius

  22. If things have grown stagnant, hiring from within does not make sense to me. Bring in new individuals with new ideas. They’re running this organization like a small business.

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