PHILADELPHIA — As the Giants and Phillies opened a three-game series that promises to have significant implications in the National League Wild Card race, San Francisco’s highest-ranking front office executives watched from nearly 3,000 miles away.
President of baseball operations Farhan Zaidi and many other club officials remained at home on this trip, electing to run the franchise’s trade deadline operations from the Bay Area.
One game against the Phillies will not significantly alter the Giants’ deadline strategy, but no one would have blamed Zaidi and his colleagues for grimacing as they pondered the future throughout Tuesday’s 4-2 defeat.