Examining Giants' NL West chances, A’s 2021 potential with Pitching Ninja

Giants Talk: A San Francisco Giants Podcast

NBC Sports Bay Area

Mlb, Sports, San Francisco Giants, Baseball

4.4 • 630 Ratings

🗓️ 1 January 2021

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

On this episode of Balk Talk, Jessica Kleinschmidt is joined by Rob Friedman, also known as Pitching Ninja, to discuss the Giants' chances in the NL West next season, how good the A’s starting rotation will be in 2021 and look back at the most memorable moments from the 2020 MLB season. (4:55) What challenge do the Padres present to the Giants? (10:20) Cueto’s unique pitching style (15:12) Should the Giants go after Trevor Bauer? (17:42) How good can Jesús Luzardo be? (21:50) Will Oakland have the best rotation in the AL next season? (29:01) Memorable moments from the 2020 MLB season

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Boc Talk podcast on NBC Sports Bay Area.com.
0:11.1	Introducing your host, NBC Sports Bay Area's Jessica Kleinschmidt.
0:16.2	Welcome back to another episode of Bok Talk presented by Wendy's.
0:19.5	Anytime at the day is Baconator time.
0:21.8	Baconator in the AM with the Wendy's Breakfast Baconator. Yep, all that bacon. Now for breakfast.
0:26.9	Try this one a.m. free with any in-at purchase, always be baconating at participating U.S. Wendy's.
0:33.4	I'm excited to be joined by my dear friend Rob Friedman. You guys know him as pitching ninja.
0:38.3	And Rob, you're my first, I want to call them repeat offenders as far as guests go.
0:43.3	So thank you for coming back again.
0:45.3	Dude, I am so happy to be here.
0:48.3	I have a record like I'm the first repeater.
0:52.3	You are. You really are. And it's and it was funny because I was
0:55.9	thinking about who to kind of end the year with. And I was like, well, why not Rob? Like, he's one of the
1:00.4	first people I told about my new podcast and it was so exciting. And I know just you bring,
1:06.2	you and I are on the same page when it comes to weird corky stuff of baseball and I want that to be
1:12.6	something that we can remember and I guess you know you're just amazing and I think the first thing
1:19.3	I want to know though is I mean we both covered the season in a way from home and what was that
1:26.2	like for you I mean I guess just from viewing it from your
1:29.7	house or wherever you're working from, you're watching it, was it weird for you at all? Does it seem
1:33.5	kind of like same day, just different season or what? It was hectic. Like for me, it seemed like
1:40.5	nothing but a sprint. And I don't know why that is. So I didn't like, I don't feel
1:45.8	like I took a breath over those 60 games. I think it was mostly because there wasn't that slow
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