Examining Jorge Soler’s impact, Pablo Sandoval’s roster chances and Giants’ ongoing free-agency mindset

Giants Talk: A San Francisco Giants Podcast

NBC Sports Bay Area

Mlb, Sports, Baseball, San Francisco Giants

4.7 • 824 Ratings

🗓️ 20 February 2024

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Alex Pavlovic and Cole Kuiper break down Pablo Sandoval’s arrival in Scottsdale and the chances he could make the 40-man roster along with the immediate impact he will have on the Giants prospects. Then, the guys switch their attention to the addition of Jorge Soler to the Giants organization. (1:35) Sandoval returns to Giants spring training (7:36) Will Sandoval make the roster? (11:36) Are the Giants done with free-agent signings? (19:09) Is Soler the Giants’ everyday DH? (25:22) Latest updates from spring training

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Giants Talk podcast.
0:09.5	Here's Alex Pavlovich and Cole Kuiper.
0:13.0	I know those guys.
0:17.7	Hey, what's up, Giants fans?
0:19.2	Welcome to another episode of Giants Talk.
0:21.1	I'm Cole Kiefer here with Alex Pavlovich, who is boots on the ground in Scottsdale.
0:26.0	He is there to see everything, and he's going to give us all the news we have.
0:30.7	We have some very exciting things to discuss this episode, maybe the most unexpected possible turn for Giant Spring Training.
0:37.1	And that is the return of a World Series legend to the lineup,
0:45.3	not to just the organization and some sort of advisory role.
0:50.3	Yeah, it's not, I think not the person I expected to see today.
0:56.1	We will get into that.
0:58.3	There's going to be a lot of panda talk.
0:59.8	Who knew, 2024, did not expect him to be the last man standing from the 2014 team when he departed for Boston.
1:10.3	Incredible.
1:12.8	You just can't read that. Yeah, it's, it's certainly a surprise, but a welcome one to be sure. And I'm, I'm ready to talk. And
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1:35.0	anything about how this came to fruition? Pablo Sandoval just kind of was blown up the executive's
1:42.1	phones enough that they relented?ented i mean not just the executives
1:46.8	everybody like a time that people heard from him in the last few weeks and and he was sending
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