Buster Posey, Giants response to 97-loss season is definition of insanity
SAN FRANCISCO — The best thing about Giants baseball this season? The groundskeeping.After spending almost 40 minutes Tuesday answering for a finish that was the fourth worst in franchise history, manager Tony Vitello had to find one positive to hang his hat on.He chose the grass.“The shape that field was in was incredible all year long,” Vitello said.“We just need to play better on it.”The Giants have a long way to go to do just that after completing a 97-loss campaign in which the only reason to tune in for the last two months was to see whether they would set the all-time record for the most players used in a season.
(They only tied the 2025 Braves for the embarrassing spot in history, with 71, but it would have been theirs alone had they treated Zach Morgan with any semblance of respect.)They called up the 26-year-old who grew up about two hours east of Oracle Park twice to their taxi squad in an otherwise-meaningless final month but never allowed him to make his MLB debut — just one more family given every reason to call itself former fans after this season.The Giants weren’t just bad.They were embarrassing.
Until they sank even lower: irrelevant, which is the position they’ve occupied for the better part of the past three months.Yet, there was Buster Posey behind a microphone in the bowels of Oracle Park, flanked on either side by his handpicked manager and second-in-command, Zack Minasian.The second-year president of baseball operations confirmed that the same leadership responsible for the disaster that was this season will get the chance to do it again next year.“I don’t think there will be a ton of changes,” Posey said, besides the possibility of “a couple” on Vitello’s coaching staff that the front office plans to discuss this week.The same leadership decided to fire Bob Melvin and make wholesale changes to its coaching staff after going 81-81, 16 games better than they finished this season.There wasn’t another MLB team th...