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Giants Talk: A San Francisco Giants Podcast

Breaking down Giants' continued offensive struggles and the Yermin Mercedes addition

Giants Talk: A San Francisco Giants Podcast

NBC Sports Bay Area

Sports, Mlb, San Francisco Giants, Baseball

4.7824 Ratings

🗓️ 20 June 2022

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Alex Pavlovic and Cole Kuiper discuss the Giants’ continued offensive struggles, the effect those struggles have on the rest of the team and if San Francisco needs to add another reliever to the bullpen. Plus, Alex and Cole weigh in on the addition of Yermin Mercedes and take a look at the minor leagues and detail which prospects are ones to keep an eye on.  (1:39) Giants claim Mercedes off waivers   (8:28) Will Mercedes stay on the Giants' roster?   (13:10) Do the Giants need to add another reliever?   (18:10) How can Giants break out of offensive slump?   (24:39) Looking at the Giants' minor leagues   (28:48) Giants head to Atlanta to face the Braves

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Giants Talk podcast. Here's Alex Pavlovich and Cole Kuiper. I know those guys.

0:16.5

Hey, everyone. Welcome to Giants Talk. I'm Cole Kuyper here with Alex Pavlovich. We got another fun one.

0:22.7

Quite a bit to talk about right off the bat. We're going to be diving into the newest member of the orange and black, the Yerminator.

0:30.3

I'm going to talk how the Giants took two of three from the pirates, which is better than the Dodgers did earlier this year.

0:35.1

And a little bit about what else is on the horizon

0:37.7

in the next couple of series. But before we go any further, as you well now, Giants Talk is presented

0:43.6

by Wendy's Breakfast. Do breakfast better wake up to oven-baked bacon, savory sausage in a breakfast

0:49.4

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0:56.2

Only, Alex, have you ever seen someone more excited to get claimed by the San Francisco

1:02.7

Giants than Yermann Mercedes?

1:04.7

No, he went straight to Instagram, which somebody who knows him told me he will go straight

1:10.0

to Instagram.

1:10.7

Not only, I think, you know,

1:12.9

obviously the one that got out there on Twitter was him pouring champagne on himself, uh, shirtless

1:17.6

and would appear to be like a driveway somewhere. And not like a friend hosing him down. Yeah. But I think

1:24.4

more impressive was the, uh, Photoshop had kind of the, you know, we have social media.

1:30.3

We have graphics staffs for this stuff.

1:32.3

So either Yerman has a graphics guy or he's just very quick on the, on the Photoshop.

1:37.9

He had it up right away.

1:38.9

That's what he's been doing.

1:39.9

Since he retired from Major League Baseball, he's been really practicing his skills in the Adobe Suite.

1:44.9

Yeah.

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