While some of the decisions Evans made were questionable at best, overall he was simply a victim of circumstance and the San Francisco Giants were forced to make a move.
I wrote an article a while back that went over Evans’s tenure as GM up to that point. We all know the general story though. Trades not panning out, and dishing out huge free agent contracts to aging pitchers who have declined in production, been oft-injured, or both defined his time as GM.
In said article, I wrote about how most of the moves made by Evans looked good on paper.