The remaining candidates to replace Bruce Bochy as the next manager of the San Francisco Giants appear to be Gabe Kapler, Joe Espada, and Pedro Grifol.
Does it even matter who gets the job?
The role of the modern manager is changing. Over the latter half of the 2010s, it has become clear that most MLB managers have ceded control to the front office who have in turn decided that it is in the best interest of the team to have analytics govern the majority of decisions made on the field.
That’s not to say that before 2015 every decision made by managers was made based on their gut or by the cut of a player’s jib.