Former San Francisco Giants first baseman Will Clark has enjoyed his retirement in his official capacity as a special assistant to the team's president, Larry Baer, and in his unofficial capacity as a throwback curmudgeon. Clark, 60, leaned into his old-school persona once again in an appearance with Eric Byrnes' No Filter Network. Byrnes, who fashioned a throwback persona for himself over 11 major league seasons (2000-10), teed up Clark for an insightful take on how recently fired executive Farhan Zaidi was involved in the Giants' organization.
"I'm not going to beat on Farhan (Zaidi) that bad, OK, but he had his fingers in everything," Clark said. "Especially analytics, that's first off, and second off was he made out the lineup. (Manager) Bob Melvin would want this guy in the lineup, that guy in the lineup – Farhan would trump him.
" Clark went on to say that Zaidi did the same thing during Bruce Bochy's final season in San Francisco (2019): "Bochy would put a lineup in and, 'eh, we need to scratch this guy and we need to scratch that guy.' "The reason these guys have managed in the big leagues for 15, 20 years is they know," Clark continued. "Dusty Baker knows.
They know exactly what's going on in their clubhouse and they have gut instincts on things, and they need to stick with their gut instincts. Not everything is statistical." The Giants dismissed Zaidi on Sept.
30 and immediately announced Posey as his successor. Clark then took his monologue a step further, directi.