MLB’s offseason began on Monday, which means that the Giants are entering it without a formal general manager handling the day to day responsibilities and setting team priorities between now and Spring Training. That’s a rare occurrence for this particular franchise, but that doesn’t mean there are no hands on the steering wheel.
Brian Sabean has come out of semi-retirement to handle those daily operations until a new GM is hired. We don’t know when that will be — although Jon Morosi’s tweet yesterday regarding the team’s possible interest in Dodgers GM Farhan Zaidi indicates that the team is “not yet close to announcing” their new hire — so, for now, it falls on Sabean’s shoulders to guide the team through the next bit of the offseason schedule.