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Giants Talk: A San Francisco Giants Podcast

Giants: Bobby Evans and Adam Berry on Mark Melancon from MLB winter meetings

Giants Talk: A San Francisco Giants Podcast

NBC Sports Bay Area

Sports, Mlb, San Francisco Giants, Baseball

4.7824 Ratings

🗓️ 6 December 2016

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Giants GM Bobby Evans and Pirates beat reporter Adam Berry (who covered Mark Melancon for two years) join Alex Pavlovic on The Giants Insider Podcast to explain what type of person and player the Giants new closer is and how the team landed him in free agency.

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0:00.0

It is out of hair.

0:05.5

In the center field, and this game is over.

0:10.5

Got them.

0:11.4

And that's a perfect game.

0:13.4

Swig and a bet.

0:14.5

The Giants are world champions.

0:17.3

Welcome to the Giants Insider podcast on CSN Bay Area.com, sponsored by Max Muscle Sports Nutrition.

0:26.1

Introducing your host, San Francisco Giants Insider, Alex Pavlovich.

0:31.4

Hey, everybody. Welcome back to the podcast. We're coming to you from the winter meetings outside of Washington, D.C.

0:37.3

The Giants obviously made their big move yesterday, getting Mark Molanson a four-year deal for $62 million.

0:43.1

That's currently the record for a relief pitcher breaking Jonathan Papabon's record of $50 million.

0:47.9

That's going to be shattered over the next few days.

0:50.5

Kenley Jansen or oldest Chapman both expected to get much more than that,

0:54.0

which is part of the reason Mark Moulanson is a giant.

0:56.3

And yesterday is part of the process.

0:58.4

I sat down with general manager Bobby Evans.

1:00.3

We went one-on-one on Malanson, on left field, on Buster Posey, playing in the World Baseball Classic, some other stuff.

1:07.6

And we're kind of going to repurpose that here.

1:09.2

That was for TV, but we have the audio here and going to turn it into a podcast. And then if you stick around, Adam Barry, who covered

1:15.2

Malanson for two years for MLB.com, I asked him about what he's like and found out some interesting

1:21.1

things, including the fact that the Giants now have a second shark, apparently. So it's, it, Gregor Blanco, probably on the way out, the white shark is gone,

1:28.7

but the Giants now have Samarja and Malanson, both of whom are sharks. So, congrats to the

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