SAN FRANCISCO -- Farhan Zaidi, currently the Dodgers' general manager, has accepted the Giants' offer to be their president of baseball operations, a source told MLB.com's Jon Paul Morosi. With Los Angeles, he reports to Andrew Friedman, who runs baseball operations. With the Giants, Zaidi would be the baseball czar, answering only to club president and chief executive officer Larry Baer.
Hank Schulman of The San Francisco Chronicle first reported Zaidi's plans on Twitter.
Since the final month of the 1985 season, the Giants have employed four managers (Roger Craig, Dusty Baker, Felipe Alou and Bruce Bochy), four general managers (Al Rosen, Bob Quinn, Brian Sabean and Bobby Evans) and four managing general partners (Bob Lurie, Peter Magowan, William Neukom and Baer).