Analyzing Giants’ middling trade deadline decisions and path to the playoffs

Giants Talk: A San Francisco Giants Podcast

NBC Sports Bay Area

Mlb, Sports, San Francisco Giants, Baseball

4.4 • 630 Ratings

🗓️ 1 August 2024

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Alex Pavlovic and Cole Kuiper break down the Giants' trade deadline decisions, including holding on to Blake Snell and sending Jorge Soler to Atlanta, if the team made a mistake not deciding on a certain path and how the pressure is now on the players to make a wild-card run. (1:10) Recapping the MLB trade deadline (5:50) Did Giants make the wrong deadline decisions? (10:10) Will Giants miss Soler’s bat? (17:20) Cobb sent to Cleveland at deadline (22:10) Canha set to appear soon after trade (29:50) Webb shines for Giants against A’s

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Giants Talk podcast.
0:09.4	Here's Alex Pavlovich and Cole Kuiper.
0:12.9	I know those guys.
0:18.1	What's up, Giants fans?
0:19.6	Welcome to another episode of Giants Talk. I'm Cole Kuiper here with Giants Insider Alex Pavlovich.
0:24.9	This is our first podcast together since the trade deadlines. So we're going to talk trade deadline moves plus Giants A's what appears to be the final home Bay Bridge series. So we'll talk about that. But first, Giants Talk is presented by Mancini's
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0:51.8	All right, Alex, trade deadline is here and past, and the Giants did exactly what you and I
0:58.3	suspected they'd do.
0:59.9	They hedged.
1:01.1	They sat.
1:02.0	A little bit nibble on both ends.
1:04.3	Nothing too exciting.
1:06.2	Although I don't know if it was for lack of trying.
1:08.6	Let's talk about what happened.
1:09.8	First, let's go with what actually did happen. I guess the biggest move they made was moving Jorge Saler.
1:17.7	Alex caught big too, I guess, but having not seen him in a long time, that one almost just
1:22.2	feels like something that didn't happen at all. But we can dive into it right off the cuff.
1:28.0	What do you think of the big trade number one, Solair?
1:31.9	Well, right off the cuff, I will say Horan was on this podcast on Tuesday.
1:37.4	So if people miss it, if you're coming on Thursday, because that's your usual day. He gave his reasoning for everything.
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