Welcome to the Giants Talk podcast.

Here's Alex Babovich and Cole Kiper.

I know those guys.

What's up offseason Giants fans?

Welcome to offseason Giants Talk.

I'm Cole Kuiper here with Giants Insider, Alex Pavlovich.

And today we're going to be talking about the Giants' new GM, doing a little arbitration discussion.

And of course, MLB playoffs are happening despite the San Francisco Giants opting not to participate.

So we'll discuss what's happening

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All right, Alex, the first big off-seeing season signing of the year is here, and it was not a

name I was familiar with before this week.

Well, you could have been, because he interviewed for the job three years ago.

You would have had to go deep.

Yeah, they didn't let me in the room for those interviews.

I petitioned.

Yeah, you would have had to go deep, deep, deep, giant's fan to know that I think there's

probably like three people in the Giants universe who remembered that

and it was probably all B-writers. You did. Yeah, I think it was me, Bags, and Maria Gwardado,

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