Posey Clarifies Role in Melvin’s Day-to-Day Giants Roster Decisions originally appeared on NBC Sports Bay Area
There will only be one person who will make the final decision on the Giants’ roster for the 2025 MLB season.
And it’s Bob Melvin.
While the process, as is the case with all major league coaches, can be a collaborative discussion, Melvin has complete autonomy over final roster decisions, as the new president of operations confirmed Thursday Giants baseball, Buster Posey. “Murph & Markus” from KNBR 680.
“No, I won’t,” Posey said when asked if he would provide Melvin’s lineups. “Bob has been doing this for 30 years. It will be something we discuss. Bob and I have talked about it before. He wants to have a dialogue about it, but at the end of the day he stands in the dugout and he learns better about his players that I can’t stand not being with them all the time.
The question was asked due to unconfirmed rumors regarding former president of baseball operations Farhan Zaidi’s involvement in roster construction, with some, including former Giants first baseman Will Clark, claiming that Zaidi had made the alignments and that his decisions overrode Melvin’s.
Posey, meanwhile, will present Melvin and his team with the resources available to best formulate team roster decisions, including the use of analytics, but will allow his manager to use them as he sees fit. seems and has already discussed the process with Melvin.
“And look, we’re going to use analytics, and I’ve already talked to BoMel about this, is ‘hey, how do we want the flow of this to play out? Do we want this to be the case, let’s the projections spit.’ “What do we think it should be, you look at it, and then you write the programming? Or you look at the lineup, and then we look at the projections, ultimately I leave that to him,” Posey explained.
“But I feel like I want my manager to use his years and years of experience to write the lineup. Let’s look at what his vision and feel tells him to do, and then let’s look at what the models are spitting out. And s “There’s one that’s glaring, there’s an outlier and ‘hmm, we should really look into that,’ so we’ll have a discussion about that.”
Posey believes Melvin plays an important role as a leader of the Giants and deserves to have complete control over decisions that impact the team’s performance on the field.
“But at the end of the day, I want to leave it to him,” Posey added. “Again, I think it’s important that he has that autonomy and that the guys on the ground know that this is the guy that’s leading the charge for us, and we’re going to fight for him, and he support in all of this.”
