I’ll be honest: when Farhan Zaidi took over as president of baseball operations for the San Francisco Giants, I thought Steven Duggar’s time with the organization was over. Duggar was — like every player in the organization when Zaidi first arrived — a product of the prior regime, and he didn’t seem like someone who fit what Zaidi was looking for.
Duggar was fresh off his debut season in 2018, and he had posted a sub-.700 OPS, struck out 4.4 times for every walk, and hit just 2 home runs in 152 plate appearances.
The Giants haven’t developed a quality homegrown outfielder since the 19th century, and I put Duggar in the same box as Mac Williamson and Chris Shaw when it came to front office evaluation.