San Francisco Giants Fan Favorite Joins Front Office in Latest Hire

 

The San Francisco Giants brought back a fan-favorite outfielder to work for Buster Posey’s new front office.

 

Randy Winn, who played five seasons as an outfielder for the San Francisco Giants, will join the front office as its vice president of player development, the team announced.

Winn is the latest hire by new president of baseball operations Buster Posey, the former All-Star catcher who helped the franchise win three World Series in five years from 2010-14.

Recently, Posey hired Zack Minasian as general manager, the brother of Los Angeles Angels general manager Perry Minasian. Both are the son of Zack Minasian, who was the clubhouse manager for the Texas Rangers for 20 years.

Winn has been a part of the organization since he retired as a player. He was  San Francisco’s roving outfield and baserunning instructor from 2013-16.

After that, he was promoted to special assistant to the general manager, a role he served in from 2017 to 2018. He then moved into a pro scouting role under Minasian in 2019.

He’s also served for more than a decade as a game analyst for Giants broadcasts on NBC Sports Bay Area. In September the Giants also named him chairman of the Giants Community Fund.

Winn was a deadline acquisition in 2005 from the Seattle Mariners. After that, he spent the next four seasons with the Giants.

In five seasons with San Francisco he finished with a slash line of .290/.345/.432/.776 with 51 home runs and 262 RBI. Those were the best numbers of his career with any of the five Major League teams he played for.