Giants announce Dusty Baker is returning to the team as a special adviser to baseball operations
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Dusty Baker is back for a third stint with the San Francisco Giants.
The longtime manager will return as a special adviser to baseball operations and work on both the baseball and business sides, the team announced Thursday.
“I’ve enjoyed my stops at various places but I’m happy to be back home,” Baker said in a statement released by the club. “I look forward to providing guidance to the organization and helping the Giants get back to the top in a very tough division.”
The 74-year-old Baker retired from the Houston Astros after last season — his 26th year as a major league manager. He said then he still had more to offer a team and hoped to take on an advisory role.
Baker managed the Giants from 1993-2002 before coming back to work as an adviser to CEO Larry Baer during a break from managing in 2018 and 2019.
“We are so excited to welcome Dusty back into the Giants organization,” Baer said. “Dusty’s experience, knowledge and the success he’s had in his 50 years of baseball will be an invaluable piece to the success and continued development of our baseball operations efforts both on and off the field.”
Baker is still beloved in the Bay Area and this very well could be his final baseball stop in what almost certainly will be a Hall of Fame career.
“I was fortunate enough to get to know Dusty when we overlapped in the organization in 2019, and I’m excited to get to work with him again,” Giants President of Baseball Operations Farhan Zaidi said. “We’ve had a chance to meet in person and discuss our shared vision of bringing championship baseball back to San Francisco. I learn something new in every interaction with him and look forward to leaning on his experience and perspective on the game.”
Baker finally won a long-awaited World Series title as a manager with Houston in 2022. A three-time NL Manager of the Year, he owns a 2,183-1,862 career record on the bench with the Giants, Cubs, Reds, Nationals and Astros.
