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Giants Talk: A San Francisco Giants Podcast

NBC Sports Bay Area

Mlb, Sports, Baseball, San Francisco Giants

4.7 • 824 Ratings

🗓️ 7 November 2023

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Cole Kuiper and Laura Britt are joined by new Giants manager Bob Melvin to break down the San Francisco’s priorities in free agency, what his coaching staff could potentially look like and why he sees great things for the youth on the roster. (1:05) Giants announce new roster moves (6:40) Conforto staying with Giants for 2024 season (11:36) Bailey snubbed of Gold Glove (17:36) MLB manager shakeup (28:10) Melvin on what his staff could look like (35:09) Melvin discusses the importance of having superstars (40:22) Melvin explains the benefit of the Giants’ youth movement

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Giants Talk podcast.
0:09.4	Here's Alex Pavlovich and Cole Kuiper.
0:13.0	I know those guys.
0:18.0	Hey, what's up, Giants fans?
0:19.5	Welcome to another episode of Giants Talk. I'm Cole Kierpure.
0:22.2	Once again, here with Laura Britt, Alex Pavlovich, still on mysterious assignment. But we're
0:27.9	going to have some fun without him. It's all good. Laura sat down with Bob Melvin. So it's about as
0:33.2	big of a get as you can get here on Giants Talk. We get to learn a little bit about the new Skipper and what he has in store,
0:39.5	2024. Plus, we have some Giants and general MLB updates since we last talked. Before you go any further,
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0:59.5	All right, Laura, I want to start us off with option news.
1:04.0	I guess there are a lot of, you know, today's the first day of free agency.
1:08.4	We're recording this on Monday night.
1:10.0	A lot of option ins and outs to discuss. Yeah, a day of free agency. We're recording this on Monday night. A lot of option
1:10.9	ins and outs to discuss. Yeah, a lot of moving parts. I don't know why I wasn't expecting it
1:16.8	to come so fast and furious, but it became really fast and really furious. Yeah, I kind of thought
1:22.2	this would be staggered out, not all at once, but here we are. We've pretty much got all
1:27.2	of the who's staying and who's
1:28.5	going option-wise figured out. Alex Cobb, we talked about this last episode, I believe. Giants
1:34.9	wanted to pick up that $10 million option, despite the fact that he's going to be MIA for the first
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