The San Francisco Giants have reportedly promoted the team’s vice president of scouting, Zack Minasian, to their new general manager.
USA Today reporter Bob Nightengale reported on X, formerly known as Twitter, that the Giants were expected to announce the move on Friday.
Minasian joined the Giants in 2019 after a 14-year stint in the Milwaukee Brewers scouting department and was promoted to head of scouting in 2022. In September, the Giants fired Farhan Zaidi as president of baseball operations and replaced him with former star catcher and minority owner Buster Posey, who said one of his priorities was hiring a general manager with extensive scouting experience.
Minasian is the godson of late Los Angeles Dodgers Hall of Fame manager Tommy Lasorda. The Bay Area News Group reported that when the Giants hired Minasian, Lasorda considered him a “Benedict Arnold” for accepting a position with the Dodgers’ rival.
According to the Giants website, Minasian “grew up in a Major League clubhouse from the age of five” and worked as a batboy/clubhouse caretaker for his father, Zack Sr., longtime clubhouse manager with the Texas Rangers. His brother, Perry Minasian, is the general manager of the Los Angeles Angels and the hiring of Zack Minasian would make their family the first ever to have sibling GMs in Major League Baseball at the same time.
Additionally, their brother Calvin Minasian is the clubhouse director for the Atlanta Braves.
On September 30, the Giants announced that Posey would become head of baseball operations two years later joined the team’s ownership group. Posey, widely expected to be a first-ballot Hall of Famer, parted ways with the team after the 2021 season.
This is a breaking news update. More information will be added when available.
