SAN FRANCISCO -- When Buster Posey first took over the baseball operations department a year ago, he added two longtime friends -- former Giants GM Bobby Evans and former agent Jeff Berry -- to help him navigate the new job. As he begins year two, Posey is turning to former teammates, as well.

The Giants announced on Friday that Curt Casali and Javier Lopez have returned to the organization as advisors to the baseball operations department. The bigger move with that department was a notable promotion. Paul Bien has been promoted to assistant general manager after years as the organization's vice president of baseball analytics.

Bien joined the Giants in 2012, the middle of a three-year title run that Posey and Lopez were huge parts of. He has had a steady rise through the front offic

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