The Giants announced Tuesday evening that they’ve hired ex-MLB player Gabe Kapler as their successor to Bruce Bochy.
Kapler managed the last two years for the Philadelphia Phillies, and before that he was the Dodgers’ director of player development under Farhan Zaidi, now the Giants’ president of baseball operations. While with the Dodgers, Kapler reportedly mishandled allegations that players in the organization had committed sexual assault.
Zaidi has classified that series of decisions as a mistake by the Dodgers organization rather than Kapler himself, but it is one part of why many Giants fans were unhappy with Kapler’s hiring.