SAN FRANCISCO — At the end of a 98-loss season in 2017, Giants executive Brian Sabean explained that the organization was not going to begin analyzing the team’s most significant issues.
Sabean explained that the “autopsy” performed by the Giants’ front office was executed months earlier, when the front office understood the season was destined to be a massive failure.
As the 2019 season winds down, first-year president of baseball operations Farhan Zaidi is in a similar situation. Zaidi spent most of the year doing a deep dive into all aspects of the franchise and doesn’t have much left to learn about the club he inherited and has attempted to reshape.