Giants add to analytics team, hire coordinator of pitching analysis

Farhan Zaidi (right) has expressed a desire to have data help inform decisions at all levels of the Giants’ organization. (Karl Mondon/Bay Area News Group)Before Giants CEO Larry Baer hired Farhan Zaidi as the franchise’s president of baseball operations, Baer announced he desired a “next-gen” front office executive to lay the blueprint for the organization’s future.

Though Zaidi hasn’t transformed the roster overnight, he has begun implementing a “next-gen” approach within the Giants’ baseball operations department. That process continued Tuesday as Matt Daniels announced on Twitter he will join the Giants as their new coordinator of pitching analysis.

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