The San Francisco Giants are epitomizing the term “transitional year”. Farhan Zaidi, modern baseball cogitator, is in for his first year. Bruce Bochy, old-school traditionalist, is in for his final year. The overlap will last for one season and then, just like that, it will be gone.
It’s easy to pit the two against each other. There’s an obvious dichotomy. Bochy went to college to study baseball; Zaidi went to MIT to study economics, then got a pHD at Cal for good measure.
Bochy has spent his entire adult life in the dugout: since being drafted in 1975, he’s spent every single year as a professional baseball player or manager - and even one year as both.