If the San Francisco Giants wanted to put a disappointing 2026 campaign behind them, they may have done just that.

President of baseball operations Buster Posey eyes a major splash in the offseason, according to FanSided’s Robert Murray.

Murray broke the news on Wednesday, Nov. 11, that former New York Yankees hitting coach James Rowson is “in talks” to make a move to San Francisco.

New York Post’s Jon Heyman and Joel Sherman also confirmed the news, so this could officially be the first big move of the Giants' offseason.

Going from Aaron Judge to Rafael Devers would still give Rowson a ton of power in his lineup. It's one that is going to look not only much healthier, but It's also vastly different compared to what the Giants had as their 2025 Opening Day roster.

Rowson has been with the Yankees since November 2023, so this would be a huge move for San Francisco to make.

Recently, Yankees manager Aaron Boone called Rowson a “free agent,” and while things haven’t exactly gone according to plan lately for the Yankees, they’ve still been far better off than the Giants.

San Francisco’s 2026 season was plagued with slumps, injuries, and just about everything in between.

Devers was on a massive power surge at the end of the season, but his year was cut short in a year when the Giants finished just a few losses shy of 100.

Hiring a new hitting coach doesn’t mean this team is going to magically get better overnight, but it was one of their major coaching decisions that needed to be made ahead of 2027.

To say that Rowson would be a great hire would be an understatement. Murray’s news comes just one day after Posey said he expected a decision to be made soon on the team’s next hitting coach, and it seems to be an understatement, as all reports have Rowson linked to the Giants.

Murray noted that Rowson would become the Major League Offensive coordinator for the Giants, though all of the details are still being figured out.

Once he puts pen to paper, that marks a new chapter of the Posey era in San Francisco. Quite a few major changes were needed for this team to become relevant once again, and this is certainly one of them.

Should Rowson indeed come to San Francisco, it would be the sixth team he’s coached, dating back to 2012.