On Halloween, we got a spooky report that the Giants were interested in the Dodgers’ Field Coordinator, Clayton McCullough, as a managerial candidate. We didn’t write it up because I thought it came pretty late in the process to be completely accurate. That’s not a shot at Craig Mish’s reporting, it’s a reaction to the team’s secrecy about the whole process.
McCullough likely did interview for the position — which, by itself, suggests the Giants blew right past the 8-10 candidates they’d planned to interview at the outset — but as is the case in these managerial hires, the Giants might’ve also been looking to see if he could be a match for the organization in another capacity.