Angels firing may foreshadow an upcoming SF Giants dismissal after the season

The Los Angeles Angels fired their general manager Perry Minasian on Friday. While that move may not seem like it has much to do with the SF Giants, it may actually foreshadow a similar move San Francisco will make after this season.

Minasian’s dismissal was a bit of a surprise because his contract was up after this season anyway, but apparently Angels owner Arte Moreno was fed up after yet another losing season under Minasian even though Moreno has made clear winning is not his top priority.

Of course, Perry Minasian is the brother of Zack Minasian who is the general manager of the Giants. It would not come as a huge shock to anyone if both Minasian brothers are let go in the same calendar year.

Someone has to take the fall for this season in San Francisco. Barring some miraculous turnaround, the Giants are going to finish well below .500 and could potentially end up as one of, if not the, worst team in the National League. 

The Giants could give manager Tony Vitello the axe, but that would be a pretty terrible look after just one season. It would be unfair too because Vitello didn’t construct this roster, he’s just had to try to manage it to the best of his abilities which is a big ask of a guy coming straight from the college ranks.

Would they get rid of president of baseball operations Buster Posey? Maybe if he was some boring baseball technocrat, but not when he was a franchise-altering player who is also a minority owner of the team. At least for now Posey is the only one who can end his tenure as head of baseball operations by deciding to resign but the competitor in him probably wants to try to dig the Giants out of this mess.

Minasian is an easy fall-guy for Giants' disaster season

That leaves Minasian. He’s an easy fall-guy, really. He’s a holdover from the Farhan Zaidi regime and it has already seemed like he’s positioning himself for his next job at times this year like when he made it very clear that Vitello was the one setting the lineups when fans were in an uproar that Bryce Eldridge wasn’t starting every day.

Is Minasian really the main one to blame for this dumpster fire of a season? Not entirely. Everyone involved deserves blame from the players to the coaching staff to the front office but Minasian could be the one to go since he would be the least embarrassing departure.

We don’t fully know how responsibilities are split between Posey and Minasian. It would make sense if Minasian was more involved with the day-to-day roster decisions while Posey was more involved in bigger moves or big-picture stuff, sort of like when Jim Halpert and Michael Scott co-ran the Scranton branch in The Office (which, much like the Giants, didn’t work out too well), but maybe after this year the Giants feel someone else should be running the day-to-day or maybe Posey wants to get more into the nitty-gritty sausage-making.

The Giants have had a fall-guy each of the last three seasons. In 2023 it was Gabe Kapler. In 2024 it was Farhan Zaidi. Last year it was Bob Melvin. Keep in mind, those moves were made after merely mediocre .500 seasons, not abjectly terrible ones like this one.

If the Giants decided a shakeup was needed after the last three years then at least one person should be let go after this season, if not multiple.

One Minasian is already gone and his brother may be counting down the days if he already sees the writing on the wall and knows he’s the most likely candidate to be let go after a very disappointing year.

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