So, it didn’t work out. Most baseball exec jobs wind up with termination. People rarely go out on top. The Farhan Zaidi era was the first steps into the 21st century taken by the San Francisco Giants. Just because something didn’t work out as expected, though, doesn’t mean it was a total failure.
For one thing, these past six seasons should have dispelled the notion that “the industry” (as in Major League Baseball) was simply embracing a fad called “analytics,” that teams could ever go back to the way people remember the game from their childhood.