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Giants Talk: A San Francisco Giants Podcast

Giants: Breaking down Opening Day roster

Giants Talk: A San Francisco Giants Podcast

NBC Sports Bay Area

Sports, Mlb, San Francisco Giants, Baseball

4.7824 Ratings

🗓️ 29 March 2019

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

Giants Insider Alex Pavlovic breaks down the Opening Day roster, focusing on the decision to keep Connor Joe and Michael Reed over Mac Williamson and others. Plus, sound from Opening Day, with manager Bruce Bochy and president of baseball operations Farhan Zaidi explaining how Joe and Reed made the roster over the final week of the spring.

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0:00.0

It is out of here.

0:05.0

In the center field and this game is over.

0:10.0

Got them.

0:11.0

And that's a perfect game.

0:13.0

Swig and a bit!

0:14.0

The Giants are world champions.

0:17.0

Welcome to the Giants Insider Podcast on CSNbayarea.com.

0:23.9

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

0:30.7

Hey, what's up, guys?

0:31.9

Welcome to the 2019 baseball season.

0:35.2

I'll start with this.

0:36.2

I knew I was going to wake up this morning and edit this

0:38.3

podcast. I went upstairs to the Marriott Club lounge to get some breakfast, and I'm sitting there

0:43.2

eating a bagel, and a very, very nice old man who was a Giants fan, came down here, walked up to me,

0:49.1

very concerned about his face, and goes, Alex, what are we going to do? So I don't really know. I don't know what to tell

0:55.4

people when they asked me that. I think for the most part, what I told him, you just have to kind of view it,

1:00.7

even though the Giants won't ever say it, is a little bit of a rebuild and a little bit of a reset.

1:07.1

That's certainly what they've shown with their roster. I think that's what they showed in the offseason. I mean, the one major guy they went after, and a guy we talked about

1:14.3

a lot was Bryce Harper, and he fit that mold a little bit because of how young he is. So he would

1:20.2

have been around here for a while, but otherwise you look at these guys who are 29, 30, 31. They

1:26.1

didn't have much interest there. They had interest in getting a little bit younger, getting a little bit more athletic.

1:31.4

I know it is hard to see, but if you look at the opening day roster, there were a couple

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