The San Francisco Giants have been undergoing a huge change to the franchise this offseason. After firing Farhan Zaidi, they hired Buster Posey to be the new President of Baseball Operations and he has been looking for a general manager. According to Bob Nightengale of USA Today, San Francisco is expected to announce Zack Minasian will serve the role.

Minasian will be elevated from his previous role as Vice President of Professional Scouting for the team, being hired by Farhan Zaidi in 2019. Buster Posey had stated multiple times that he was looking for someone with a background in scouting to take over the role, so Minasian fits that criteria well.

Before his time with the Giants, Minasian spent 14 seasons with the Milwaukee Brewers where he served in roles such as Professional Scouting Director and Manager of Minor League Scouting. His lengthy background in the scouting world will give Posey what he was looking for.

A hire from within the team isn’t exactly surprising, but most thought they would want to go outside of the organization to bring in some new thoughts under Posey. However an in-house hire was always a possibility, but most thought it would be Jeremy Shelley, who has been with the team for over 20 years.

Minasian’s hire means that he and his brother Perry, the GM of the Los Angeles Angels, are the first pair of brothers to be active general managers at the same time. He is also the godson of legendary Los Angeles Dodgers manager Tommy Lasorda.

With the new general manager hire under the their belt, San Francisco can now put their focus fully into the offseason. Rumored to be in the running for players like Juan Soto and Roki Sasaki, as well as multiple trades, Minasian will have a handful right away.

The Denver Broncos are relatively healthy entering Week 9’s tilt vs. the Baltimore Ravens. The Broncos had two players who didn’t practice on Wednesday, while the Ravens had five.

One of those five players was Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson, who is listed with a back/knee injury designation. It would seem to be good news for the Broncos, if the injuries Jackson is nursing are significant enough to cause him to miss practice, but Ravens head coach John Harbaugh’s comments threw a wet blanket on those hopes.

“Rest day,” Harbaugh said on Wednesday. “He’s been playing great. We got a lot of football in front of us here. We got a game, quick game, another big game coming up. So, that was warranted today.”

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Jackson is once again playing at an MVP level and being the savvy veteran that he is, the Ravens know how to manage him when he gets banged up in-season. A rest day here and there during the practice week can make all the difference.

There’s no reason to expect anyone other than Jackson under center for the Ravens on Sunday, so the Broncos will be gearing up to that end. With starting safety P.J. Locke still nursing that thumb injury that cost him Week 8, he didn’t practice on Wednesday, nor did Broncos right tackle Mike McGlinchey, who’s listed with a knee.

Like Jackson, McGlinchey’s inactivity in Wednesday’s practice is probably more about giving him a veteran rest day than it is a glaring injury, although it is a situation to monitor. McGlinchey’s knee ailment caused him to miss four games this season on injured reserve.

The Broncos didn’t specifically list McGlinchey’s absence as a rest day, though. And that is conspicuous, considering that defensive end Zach Allen was listed as limited with a ‘rest’ designation.

We’ll continue to monitor both teams’ practice reports as the game week marches on.

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One year after being traded from the Seattle Mariners, could third baseman Eugenio Suarez be on the move again?

According to MLBTradeRumors, Suarez is a possible candidate to be dealt this offseason. He was ranked at No. 27 on their profile of 35 players likely to be traded.

Here’s a portion of their blurb on him:

Suarez might feel like an odd candidate for this list, given his outrageous second half. He was one of baseball’s most prolific offensive performers in the season’s final three months, carrying a Herculean .312/.357/.617 batting line from July 1 through season’s end. Along the way, Suarez ripped 24 homers in just 325 plate appearances. He can still play a solid third base. His option is not at all unreasonable.

However, it’s worth looking at where things stood with Suarez prior to that second-half surge. The slugger had been acquired from the Mariners in what amounted to a salary dump. He had a hot week or two to open the season and then faceplanted over the next two months. His slump reached a low enough point in June that the D-backs would no longer commit to him in an everyday role…

Suarez has a club option for $15 million that they could exercise for the purpose of keeping him or for the purpose of dealing him away.

The 33-year-old finished the year at .256 with 30 homers and 101 RBI, almost exclusively on the strength of his final three months.

The Mariners traded him to Arizona last offseason in that salary-dump move that netted them backup catcher Seby Zavala and a promising relief prospect. The M’s had acquired Suarez before the 2022 season and he became an instant-fan favorite for his good attitude and ability to hit home runs.

Suarez had 31 homers and 87 RBI for the M’s in 2022 as they broke the drought and advanced to the playoffs. He added 22 homers and 96 RBI for the 2023 team that missed the playoffs by just one game. Trading him was billed by the front office as a way to cut down on strikeouts (he led the American League in strikeouts each of those years), but it was clearly just a way to cut his $11 million salary last offseason, another in a string of frustrating penny-pinching moves.

Suarez is a one-time All-Star who has played 11 years with the Cincinnati Reds, Mariners, Diamondbacks and Detroit Tigers.

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