Breaking down Giants’ spring training roster battles

Giants Talk: A San Francisco Giants Podcast

NBC Sports Bay Area

Mlb, Sports, San Francisco Giants, Baseball

4.4 • 630 Ratings

🗓️ 15 March 2021

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Cole Kuiper and Alex Pavlovic discuss the new rules being implemented in the minor leagues, the Giants' current spring training roster battles and predict how the Opening Day roster will look when San Francisco faces the Mariners. (1:50) Belt gives update on health heading into 2021 season (8:34) Breaking down minor league rule changes (12:01) Should MLB ban the shift? (20:23) What new rules will MLB adopt? (23:50) How will the Giants’ outfield look? (29:17) Who will be the closer this season?

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Giants Talk podcast.
0:08.0	Here's Alex Babelovich and Cole Kiper. I know those guys.
0:14.0	Hi everyone, welcome to Giants Talk. I'm Alex Bablovich's good friend, Cole Kuiper, and we're here to talk Giants baseball with you every Monday and Thursday right here on the NBC Sports Podcasting Network.
0:29.9	Giant Stock is brought to you by Wendy's. Try the new jalapeno Popper chicken sandwich and salad today at participating U.S. Wendy's.
0:37.8	Now, Alex, this is an anecdote that I don't know how it hasn't come up yet with our Wendy's
0:42.8	sponsorship, but did you know when Dwayne Kuyper was playing for the Indians?
0:47.9	He was a Wendy's franchisee.
0:49.9	Was he really?
0:51.2	Yeah.
0:51.8	We have another show on Thursday, and that's like the first question for him.
0:56.4	What was it like being in charge of a Wendy's store?
1:00.0	So yeah, I think he's got some very fond memories of Wendy's.
1:04.9	We'll have to ask him about that next week.
1:06.9	I don't remember if I said this on the first one we did.
1:09.0	I might have, but I met somebody from Wendy's one time, and they took out their phone and immediately showed me a picture of Madison Bongarner coming through the drive-through.
1:17.4	Somebody in the back was like, I need a picture of this.
1:21.1	I imagine him being on a horse as he goes through that.
1:24.1	It was a big truck. It was like he was way above the window.
1:28.1	Yeah.
1:28.5	No, that is awesome.
1:30.9	Quick injury updates.
1:32.6	We had a few recent developments, most notably Brandon Belt had kind of broke the news.
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