Farhan Zaidi’s season wrapup

Photo by Victor Decolongon/Getty ImagesThis morning, Farhan Zaidi gave a season-ending press conference (you can watch it on the team’s YouTube channel). Usually, these events feature a panel of team representatives — the team president, the general manager, and maybe even the manager — but because of the open positions, it was just Zaidi against the press.

The question I was most interested in came towards the end: Do you feel good about the team’s progress over the course of the year? His answer: “. . . would say we feel good about our progress over the last year.”

That wasn’t quite the answer I was hoping for, but his expansion proved to be interesting and, when applied retroactively to…