For the past handful of seasons, the Los Angeles Dodgers have been one of the best-run franchises in all of baseball.
When a team is in a stretch of success, other teams around the league try to replicate that blueprint, and one of those methods involves hiring people who’ve participated in that success.
The San Francisco Giants have won three World Series championships this decade, but have missed the playoffs for two consecutive years.
They’re in somewhat of a limbo right now, not fully committed to a rebuild while hoping that their championship core still has a few more great seasons in them despite that recent playoff absence.