SF Giants president of baseball operations Buster Posey is different from his predecessor Farhan Zaidi in many ways, but he may have to emulate some practices that were controversial amongst fans to help the team.
Zaidi leaned heavily on contracts that featured opt-outs and player options during his tenure. That allowed the Giants to add some good players like Carlos Ródon and Blake Snell, but it also meant that the Giants only had those guys for one season (really half a season in the case of Snell).
Posey may have to embrace opt-outs to improve SF Giants
This frustrated some fans because the Giants would get a good player for one season only to see him depart in free agency and go to another team.