When the Yankees announce their World Series roster, Brian Sabean’s fingerprints will be on it. General manager Brian Cashman ...

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From third base (covered) to shortstop (not so much), ranking the Giants' biggest areas of need at the start of the offseason ...

Which might be a bad omen. Forget about this part, actually. Brian Sabean was the scouting director when the Yankees drafted or signed Derek Jeter, Mariano Rivera, Jorge Posada and Andy Pettitte.

That's only part of it. "But that's slighting these guys, that's slighting the GM (Brian Sabean) who brought these guys here and put this team together," says Giants manager Dusty Baker.

Reinhold Matay-Imagn Images Evans was the GM in San Francisco from 2015-2018 after Brian Sabean was given a promotion. Despite coming off the World Series, and having the core they had ...

And yes, that matters, especially if as seems likely now, the Bonds money will eat up any money general manager Brian Sabean would have been allowed to use for Jason Schmidt or other needs.

When the Yankees announce their World Series roster, Brian Sabean’s fingerprints will be on it. General manager Brian Cashman on Wednesday called Sabean his “consigliere” and said he still ...