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Giants Talk: A San Francisco Giants Podcast

Giants CEO Larry Baer discusses Oracle Park’s return to full capacity, upcoming trade deadline

Giants Talk: A San Francisco Giants Podcast

NBC Sports Bay Area

Mlb, Sports, San Francisco Giants, Baseball

4.4630 Ratings

🗓️ 21 June 2021

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Giants CEO Larry Baer joins Giants Talk to discuss Oracle Park’s return to full capacity, the team's mindset heading into the upcoming trade deadline and how the Giants balance present vs. future success. Plus, Alex Pavlovic and Cole Kuiper break down if San Francisco's offensive success is sustainable and preview an upcoming matchup with Shohei Ohtani and the Angels. (1:36) Giants take two from Phillies   (6:06) Do Giants need one more starter? (12:20) Will Giants continue offensive success?   (16:23) Where would Giants be if they signed Harper? (20:45) Angels and Ohtani upcoming on Giants schedule  (28:17) Baer discusses Oracles Park’s return to full capacity (33:13) Baer weighs in on the Giants success this season  (37:26) Baer details the Giants’ trade deadline mentality

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Giants Talk podcast.

0:09.0

Here's Alex Babovich and Cole Kuiper.

0:13.0

I know those guys.

0:16.0

Hey Giants fans, I'm Cole Kiper along here with Giants Insetter, Alex Pavlovich, and we're ready to talk a little Giants baseball here on Giants Top.

0:25.5

Giants Top comes to you every Monday and Thursday right here on the NBC Sports Podcast Network, and is brought to you by Wendy's.

0:32.8

Right now at Wendy's, get two breakfast sandwiches for just four bucks.

0:38.8

Alex, I crunch the numbers.

0:44.6

Bryce Harper could buy a breakfast sandwich for every resident of Pennsylvania with this year's salary. Like 18 times? Or?

0:49.3

13 million sandwiches for 12.8 million people in Philly or in Pennsylvania.

0:58.4

It worked out well for him. The team might not be great, but it worked out, it worked out okay for him.

1:03.8

Yeah, good for him. I don't think he has any regrets. We'll talk a little Bryce Harper, what ifs, down the line.

1:10.0

But let's just dive right into this

1:11.9

Philly series, because it was a, uh, it was a fun one. Friday's game, Quedo on the

1:16.3

mound. What'd you think? Um, it was, yeah, it was, it was a really interesting series. It was

1:22.2

like sneaky high, not even sneaky high scoring, like surprisingly high scoring, I think. It turned into

1:28.9

like an offensive battle, but I think Quato's highlight was Quato running from first to home, right?

1:34.9

That was, that was the highlight for me. And not just, I don't know if I've said this on here before.

1:39.8

I definitely have said it on the pregame show like 15 times because it's one of my favorite

1:43.2

fun facts of the year. But he tried to put a bunt down in early April and tried to beat it.

1:48.8

Or he put a bunt down and tried to beat it out. And his sprint speed on that at the time was

1:53.3

like top five on the team through the first like two weeks. Wow. He's been past, Stephen Dugger

1:58.5

now is like every single night doing something and

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