Exclusive: One-on-one with new Giants GM Pete Putila

Giants Talk: A San Francisco Giants Podcast

NBC Sports Bay Area

Mlb, Sports, San Francisco Giants, Baseball

4.4 • 630 Ratings

🗓️ 18 October 2022

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

New Giants GM Pete Putila joins this episode of Giants Talk to discuss what he sees in San Francisco’s minor league system, the growth he has seen from the team over the last three seasons and why everything is on the table this offseason. (1:19) Padres eliminate Dodgers from playoffs (11:24) How is the new MLB playoff format? (19:00) Does the Padres' success influence the Giants? (29:39) Could Bochy make his return? (37:43) Putila on being named Giants GM (42:01) Putila details his success with player development (46:06) Putila on the Giants’ farm system

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Giants Talk podcast.
0:09.4	Here's Alex Babovich and Cole Kuiper.
0:13.0	I know those guys.
0:18.1	What's up Giants fans?
0:20.4	Pop your champagne. Do you're celebrating the Giants have come as close to winning the World Series as they possibly could this year with the Padres officially taking the Dodgers out of playoff contention.
0:33.0	Welcome to Giants Talk. I'm Cole Kuiper here with Alex Pavlovich. We're going to talk about that series. We're going to talk about what's going on in the rest of baseball. And then very excitingly,
0:42.1	Alex got to sit down with new Giants GM, Pete Patella, to get to know the new guy. Before we go any
0:49.0	further, though, Wendy's is our official sponsor of Giants Talk and Wendy's Pretzel Bacon Pub Cheeseburger is back.
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1:00.3	applewood smoked bacon, crispy fried onions, and hot and juicy beef,
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1:11.3	Alex, before we go any further, I would like to bring back a note from last episode where
1:17.4	you and I took a quick second to do predictions of what would happen in the national league.
1:22.5	I don't remember doing this.
1:24.0	You took two teams that I think had a pretty good shot, the Dodgers and the Braves.
1:31.3	I feel like they did okay in the regular season.
1:33.5	I went ahead and took the Padres and Phillies.
1:36.5	Do you want to recap for everyone who's going to be in the NLCS this year?
1:40.5	Well, you cut the episode off before we got to the American League.
1:44.1	And I was about to predict
1:45.2	that Wandi Peralta would be closing games out for the Yankees.
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