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Giants Talk: A San Francisco Giants Podcast

Giants: Derek Holland

Giants Talk: A San Francisco Giants Podcast

NBC Sports Bay Area

Mlb, Sports, San Francisco Giants, Baseball

4.4630 Ratings

🗓️ 20 April 2018

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Left-hander Derek Holland discusses facing the Giants in the 2010 World Series, how he chose San Francisco in the offseason, moving over to the National League, meeting Charlie Sheen, his many impersonations and much more.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Giants are world champions.

0:04.5

Welcome to the Giants Insider Podcast on NBCSports Bay Area.com.

0:10.0

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

0:24.7

Hey, everybody, welcome back to the Giants Insider podcast presented.

0:28.9

As always, by Wendy's, today's podcast is a conversation with Derek Holland.

0:35.8

He is right now probably the fifth starter for the Giants, somebody who is going to be a part of this rotation going forward.

0:41.3

And you look at what has done so far, three starts, 4.60 ERA, 1.09 whip.

0:42.8

He's averaging a strikeout per inning.

0:45.6

I actually think he's pitched a lot better than that ERA.

0:50.9

He has been kind of undone by first inning issues a little bit, and he is baffled by that.

0:55.1

But something that if he can get through, I think he'll be a pretty good weapon for him,

1:01.8

especially as to try to get the rotation healthy here and get some Marja back, get Bumgarner back in five or six weeks. And he could be a guy who's at the back end for him and allows Ty Block to kind of be that swing man in the bullpen, which was the plan all along.

1:09.6

Obviously, for most of this team, it hasn't gone very well up to this point.

1:14.8

They're under 500 again to start a season, and at some point next week or the week after,

1:18.9

I'll have Ahmed back on, and we'll do kind of a deep dive into all that.

1:22.5

So send your questions to me on Twitter or to Ahmed if you have questions that you would

1:27.4

like specifically address about

1:29.2

this team and where they're headed and some of your concerns I know a lot of you guys have a lot of

1:34.0

concerns but for now here is Derek Holland it was an interesting conversation with a guy who

1:38.5

who has been around a long time and seems very happy in in San Francisco and just has a lot of fun

1:44.0

he's the guy taking the water coolers out there during the walkoffs.

1:47.6

I asked a lot of guys this week if they would use the bullpen carts and nobody wanted to use

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