Pete Putila wont be Giants GM under Buster Posey, will have new role NBC Sports Bay Area & California [Video]

The Giants made a change to the second-most important position in their front office.

Just one day after the team fired Farhan Zaidi as president of baseball operations and named Buster Posey as his replacement, Posey announced Pete Putila will not remain general manager and instead will have a new role within the organization.

“We’re going to hire a GM,” Posey said at his introductory press conference Tuesday at Oracle Park. “That’s going to be one of the first tasks right out the gate. Pete’s been made aware that he’ll be moving off the GM role. We’ll work through what some other responsibilities might look like for him.”

Putila was named GM under Zaidi almost two years ago and has kept a relatively low public profile. But now under new leadership, the Giants decided to go in a new direction at the position while making it clear that Putila still could remain in a different capacity.

Posey, who has no prior front-office experience, is …