Giants fire general manager Evans

SAN F R ANCISCO» Bobby Evans was fired Monday as the San Francisco Giants’ general manager.

The team said Evans will be reassigned, with responsibilities to be determined.

The move came as the Giants began the final week of the season at 7284, their second straight losing record.

“I made the decision, really,” CEO Larry Baer said. “At this point, we needed to take a fresh approach to baseball operations.”

The club will start a search for a new head of baseball operations.

“We’re looking for someone that sort of is the ‘next gen’ general manager, if you will,” Baer said.

“People will say ‘new school versus old school,’ people will say ‘analytics versus scouting,’ and I think that the new, nextgeneration general manager is able to do both, and will bring both to the mix.”

Evans was hired by the Giants in 1994, became vice president of baseball operations in 2009 under general manager Brian Sabean and was promoted to GM in April 2015 when Sabean became executive vice president of baseball operations.

“He’s a big part of our family tree,” Sabean said. “I came into the organization in ‘93 and I believe Bobby shortly thereafter in ‘94. We’ve not only grown together in endeavors professionally with the Giants, we’ve grown together as people and it’s a big part of your lifetime.”

The Giants won World Series championships in 2010, 2012 and 2014. They made the playoffs again in 2016, but are 166224 since taking a major leaguebest 5733 record into the AllStar break that year.

Baer said the team is open to female candidates.

“Sure,” he responded. “I haven’t considered anybody yet, since we’re just making this announcement now, but we would consider, of course, females.”