SAN FRANCISCO — Dusty Baker is again for a 3rd stint with the San Francisco Giants.
The longtime supervisor will return as a particular adviser to baseball operations and work on each the baseball and enterprise sides, the staff introduced Thursday.
“I’ve loved my stops at varied locations, however I am joyful to be again dwelling,” Baker mentioned in a press release launched by the membership. “I stay up for offering steerage to the group and serving to the Giants get again to the highest in a really robust division.”
Baker, 74, retired from the Houston Astros after final season, his twenty sixth yr as a significant league supervisor. He mentioned then he nonetheless had extra to supply a staff and hoped to tackle an advisory position.
Baker managed the Giants from 1993 to 2002 earlier than coming again to work as an adviser to CEO Larry Baer throughout a break from managing in 2018 and 2019.
“We’re so excited to welcome Dusty again into the Giants group,” Baer mentioned. “Dusty’s expertise, data and the success he is had in his 50 years of baseball might be a useful piece to the success and continued improvement of our baseball operations efforts each on and off the sector.”
Baker continues to be beloved within the Bay Space, and this very properly may very well be his closing baseball cease in what virtually actually might be a Corridor of Fame profession.
“I used to be lucky sufficient to get to know Dusty after we overlapped within the group in 2019, and I am excited to get to work with him once more,” Giants president of baseball operations Farhan Zaidi mentioned. “We have had an opportunity to fulfill in individual and focus on our shared imaginative and prescient of bringing championship baseball again to San Francisco. I study one thing new in each interplay with him and stay up for leaning on his expertise and perspective on the sport.”
Baker lastly received a long-awaited World Collection title as a supervisor with Houston in 2022. A 3-time NL Supervisor of the Yr, he owns a 2,183-1,862 profession file on the bench with the Giants, Cubs, Reds, Nationals and Astros.
He left the Giants on tough phrases following their World Collection loss to the Angels in 2002 and took over as skipper of the Cubs.
Nonetheless, this new job is a pure match. Baker repaired his relationships in San Francisco over time — the Giants provided him flexibility to look at son Darren’s faculty video games on the College of California, Berkeley — and he nonetheless owns a house in Granite Bay outdoors Sacramento, the place he likes to backyard and develop grapes for his personal wine.
He’ll be a part of the Giants & KNBR FanFest Tour for the primary cease Saturday in Sacramento.
“I am thrilled to be on the identical staff as Dusty once more,” new Giants supervisor Bob Melvin mentioned. “He is been an awesome buddy and mentor to me over time. Greater than something, I haven’t got to handle towards him anymore. Welcome dwelling, Bake.”
