Melvin, signed on to manage Giants through 2026, feels sense of “responsibility,” says expectation is to “win from day one.”
San Francisco Giants manager Bob Melvin answers questions as President of Baseball Operations Farhan Zaidi, left, and Chairman Greg Johnson, right, listen during an introductory baseball news conference at Oracle Park in San Francisco, Wednesday, Oct. 25, 2023. SAN FRANCISCO — In Gabe Kapler’s four years here, he came to enjoy nights when the moon was full.
Melvin signed a three-year contract, pairing him through 2026 with Zaidi, whose contract that was set to expire after 2024 was. He was the top choice all along. They interviewed only five candidates, speaking informally to a few others, Zaidi said. Melvin had one year left on his contract in San Diego and only met with Zaidi for the first time last week, after the Padres granted permission, which Zaidi said the Giants weren’t sure would come.
While thanking the Padres for being “flexible and accommodating,” Zaidi said that “Bob’s track record as a manager speaks for itself. … When you’re going through this process, you’re looking at the totality of someone’s career, their leadership, their characteristics. You’re not looking at recency bias or what happened over one season.”
Zaidi previously acknowledged that the Giants would have to “rethink everything,” but that doesn’t mean discarding analytics or matchup-based baseball, which Zaidi pointed out has been on display in the postseason. Melvin gained an appreciation for blending numbers with feel in Oakland, where he first met Zaidi and, to the chagrin of his new boss, named Billy Beane of “Moneyball” fame as one of his biggest influences for helping him evolve into a modern manager.
On the subject of enhancing the team, the Giants are counting on Melvin to be what Zaidi deemed an “effective recruiter.”
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