Welcome to the Giants Talk podcast. Here's Alex Bablovich and Cole Kuiper. I know those guys.

Hey, what's up, Giants fans? Welcome to another episode of Giants Talk. I'm Cole Kuiper here with Giants

Insider, Alex

Pavlovich. We have an extra special episode for you today. Alex and Laura Britt sat down

with Giants president of baseball operations Farhad Zaidi. You had trade deadline questions and maybe

frustrations. Alex and Laura asked about them. So that's going to be at the

end of the episode. Make sure you stay tuned. We're also going to talk Giants Diamondbacks. We're in the

middle of a series. And Giants are playing very well against their in-division wild card rivals.

I'm going to say rivals. Plus, Marco Luciano, what is his future this season? Before we go

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Alex, since we are mid-series for this one, let's talk a little Giants Diamondbacks.

Giants took the first two of three in this series and could be in sweep formation right now, if not for a dicey extra

innings game. And they've played a bell in those so far. Yeah, I mean, they've, you know,

this is what we talked about like last week when they, uh, they had that pirate series. And then

the first half of the red series, like these games that, uh, that are close late, they're generally really have the upper hand

because they have, even though Tyler Rogers and Camille DeVal have both had a stumble

the last week, they have the better bullpen than almost everybody they play.

And they have a team that generally comes up with, you know, they don't

score a lot and they don't, especially the last month. But I think in the late innings, they

generally have guys who come through. So they've had basically close games now for what,

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