Giants to name Zack Minasian general manager

Bob Nightengale of USA Today reports that the Giants are planning to name Zack Minasian their new general manager on Friday. He will work under Buster Posey, the new president of baseball operations.

Minasian, the brother of Angels GM Perry Minasian, has been the Giants’ vice president of professional scouting since 2022 and a front office member since 2019.

Before coming to the Giants, Minasian spent 14 years working with the Brewers. He held various titles then, mainly in scouting, before getting plucked out of Milwaukee and landing in San Francisco.

The Giants are undergoing a significant front-office overhaul. Posey was tapped to replace Farhan Zaidi last month. Amid reporting on that change, it was also noted that general manager Pete Putila would be given a new role and replaced with a new GM.

Various names were floated as candidates, including Athletics assistant GM Billy Owens, Giants assistant GM Jeremy Shelley, Astros special advisor De Jon Watson and others. Still, the Giants will promote from within by giving Minasian the gig.

Presumably, Posey and Minasian already know each other. Posey played for the Giants as recently as 2021 and later moved into a new role, buying a minority ownership stake and getting a seat on the club’s board of directors.

Regardless of whatever pre-existing relationship they had, their future partnership figures to be essential for the franchise. Most baseball decision-makers come from a background in scouting or analytics and are already familiar with running a baseball club. But Posey’s path is fairly unusual, so he might be leaning on his second-in-command more than other front-office leaders until he learns the ropes.