Farhan's reputation, and job coming to the Giants (from Oakland and the Dodgers) was to build the farm system.
The three world series titles were won mainly on home-grown talent. Posey, Cain, Lincecum Mad Bum (?) and others. The farm system had fallen into disrepair. Enter the magician.
He, as we say, failed.
In all his years here, the farm system has produced only Joey Bart, who, being a second overall pick, was as sure a bet as you can get. The others have not shown in 4 (?) years. I am pretty sure that this is his "contract" year, so he had to make a splash or look pretty incompetent. Failed to do that. Years and years of reclamation jobs (mostly coming back from surgery) and rotating players ( "We want versatile players" ) through positions only worked in the 107 win season, when several veterans simultaneously had career years.
I think that people were pretty fed up when they put a catcher in left field for reasons I forgot, deliberately.
So, if your farm system is really, really late to produce, and the bartender is flashing the lights, what do you do?
We shall see!!
My entire philosophy is that people mostly get things 180° wrong.
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