Latest move highlights persisent trend of poor communication from SF Giants front office

Communication is the key to success for any organization. However, SF Giants team president of baseball operations Farhan Zaidi has failed to communicate effectively to players time and again. Unfortunately, two more recent examples rose to the surface recently.

Latest move highlights persisent trend of poor communication from SF Giants front office

The Kevin Gausman fiasco

Kevin Gausman left the Giants after two productive years to sign a five-year $110 million contract with Toronto during the 2021 offseason. A contract that now looks like an absolute steal as Gausman has managed season ERA totals of 3.35 and 3.16 with season WAR totals of 5.7 and 5.3 during his first two seasons in Toronto.

Gausman signing elsewhere is an issue in itself but the Giants made no effort to even discuss a new deal, outlining a lack of communication that will be prevalent as we go on. On January 23rd, 2022, Gausman tweeted, "I want to set the record straight for y’all bc there has been a lot of bs out there about this. SF never made me an offer. Simple as that. Anyone or anything that says otherwise is #FakeNews".

He also went on to state "I really wanted to come back but at the same time I understand there are a lot of things that you can't control". The fact that the Giants had a top-flight pitcher who wanted to stay in SF and no offer was made shows a lack of communication and at the very least a lack of common sense.