SAN FRANCISCO — When the offseason began, the Giants understood there would be a wide-open competition to attract the best possible manager candidates.
Jobs range from high-profile gigs with pressure to win immediately such as ones with the New York Mets, Chicago Cubs and Philadelphia Phillies to positions leading rebuilding teams with the Pittsburgh Pirates and Kansas City Royals.
Eight different clubs have spent at least part of October searching for a new manager, which would theoretically complicate the hiring process for a team such as the Giants that hopes to contend within the next two seasons.