Best Podcast in Baseball 9.14: The Giants in Our Midst

Best Podcast in Baseball

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Sports, Baseball

4.8 • 673 Ratings

🗓️ 10 July 2021

⏱️ 37 minutes

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San Francisco Chronicle baseball writer Susan Slusser joins the Best Podcast in Baseball host Derrick Goold, of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, for a conversation at Oracle Park about the surprise time in the National League -- the Giants. This was supposed to be a rebuilding year for the team that has to contend with the glitzy Dodgers and rising Padres, and instead it's the Giants who neared the All-Star break in first place with the best record in the National League. Slusser, a former president of the BBWAA, won California's sportswriter of the year award for her coverage of the Athletics, and for 2021, in a significant offseason move, relocated across the Bay to a new beat covering a new team in a new league. That's a good launch point for a discussion about how the Giants were built, their giant coaching staff, and, of course, what happens when a catching Giant hangs up his gear for the last time after defining an era for a championship team. It could happen in two NL cities soon. The Best Podcast in Baseball is a production of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, StlToday.com, and Derrick Goold.

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0:17.2	That's going to be a tough, tough thing to say.
0:19.8	You've got to replace Buster POSSI. Joey Bark got rushed last year because of the pandemic and Posey opting out.
0:25.6	Giants keep batting catchers during the draft.
0:28.6	It's really been an emphasis.
0:30.6	I don't think they're going like, we got to replace Buster, you know, at some point, so maybe we'll hit on somebody. My best guess is the way you do it is you have a stopgap.
0:39.7	Free agent type that could handle that
0:41.4	kind of, you know,
0:43.4	um,
0:44.6	expectation and the
0:47.2	difficulty of filling in, uh, for
0:49.1	such huge shoes.
0:50.9	But honestly, the way he's playing,
0:52.8	Posey's got another few years left.
1:00.3	Hello, everybody.
1:01.0	And welcome to the best podcast in baseball brought to by Clauses by Design of St. Louis.
1:04.4	I'm St. Louis Post-Dispatched baseball writer Derek Gould.
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