Farhan Zaidi news lends credence to SF Giants theory he was a Dodger spy all along

Former SF Giants president of baseball operations Farhan Zaidi is reportedly in talks with the Los Angeles Dodgers to return in a front office role. Maybe all of those people who said he was a Dodgers operative were not too far off base.

Think about it, it was the perfect ruse. The Dodgers clearly sent Zaidi to keep their archrival down with middling baseball for half a decade (with one record-breaking 107-win season just to throw everyone off the scent) while mishandling top prospects like Joey Bart and Marco Luciano in order to saddle the Giants while the Dodgers took over the baseball world.

Farhan Zaidi's potential return to the Dodgers may justify SF Giants theory that he was an operative

In all seriousness though, it is dispiriting that Zaidi may potentially return to the Dodgers. One would think he would have been able to find another job as the top executive in a front office. Yet, it seems like Zaidi has chosen the path of Mookie Betts, Shohei Ohtani, and Blake Snell. He has chosen the easy route.

Obviously, Zaidi already failed taking the harder path. He ran the Giants' front office from 2019 to 2024 and was only able to field a playoff-caliber team once in 2021. It is miraculous he was able to pull that off and he deserves a lot of credit for it. Yet, he was not able to sustain that success which is why he was let go after three straight seasons of mediocrity on the field.

It would not be all that surprising if the Dodgers were to let Zaidi do some of his favorite things if they hire him like watch the waiver wire like a hawk. We know how Farhan loved to find his little diamonds in the rough, so they can let him go off in the corner and pick up players off the scrap heap while the big boys fund Blake Snell's Meta Quest 38 purchase so he can fully immerse himself in Call of Duty Black Ops 66 with all that deferred money they're throwing at him.

No matter what, Zaidi potentially returning to the organization he served as general manager of from 2014 to 2018 is an interesting development to say the least. Perhaps he will be welcomed back as a hero for ensuring the Giants could not get beyond mediocrity.

His legacy with the Giants was already complicated. He had the one year of glory in 2021, but the subsequent blandness he oversaw sullied that season and made it stand out as something of a fluke rather than the start of a new era of Great Giants Baseball which it potentially could have been. Rejoining the Dodgers would fully make him persona non grata amongst Giants fans.

Now, if he does return to the Dodgers, he gets to walk with his tail between his legs back to the organization where he cut his teeth and try to beat the very team that he could not turn into a juggernaut with much fancier and shinier toys. If you can't beat 'em, rejoin 'em.