Giants' free agency strategy, Dodgers' big addition and Kris Bryant's decision

Giants Talk: A San Francisco Giants Podcast

NBC Sports Bay Area

Mlb, Sports, San Francisco Giants, Baseball

4.4 • 630 Ratings

🗓️ 17 March 2022

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Alex Pavlovic and Cole Kuiper discuss the recent flurry of free agency moves in MLB, including the Giants signing Joc Pederson and the Dodgers bringing in Freddie Freeman. Plus, Alex and Cole weigh in on the Kris Bryant heading to the Rockies and how the newly announced updates to the schedule hurt the Giants. (1:05) Freeman, Dodgers agree to deal (7:30) Giants sign Pederson to one-year deal (12:36) Bryant signs with Rockies (19:20) Should the Giants have been more aggressive in free agency? (23:33) Suzuki headed to Cubs (33:22) MLB announces updated 2022 schedule (40:33) Giants' spring training games starting March 18th

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Giants Talk podcast.
0:09.4	Here's Alex Babelich and Cole Kuiper.
0:13.0	I know those guys.
0:17.5	Hey, Giants fans.
0:18.7	Welcome to another episode of Giants Talk presented as always by Wendy's.
0:22.6	Right now at Wendy's get a free drink with any breakfast sandwich purchase. You can't beat that deal.
0:29.6	I was actually at dinner on Wednesday night when some news broke that made us retaped the intro to this Thursday podcast.
0:39.6	So just to go behind the scenes a little bit, Cole and I, I'm Alex Pavlovich, taped earlier today. You'll hear all
0:45.0	of that coming up. At the time that we taped, we were celebrating Jocktober. We were talking about
0:52.4	Sayas Suzuki. Since then, you know, the Giants went out and got a left-handed bat from the world champion Braves.
0:59.4	The Dodgers decided to keep up.
1:01.2	They also decided to get a left-handed bat from the world champion Braves.
1:04.6	It's not Jock Peterson for them.
1:06.7	They've had Jock already.
1:07.8	It is Freddie Freeman, the 2020 National League MVP, a guy who has
1:16.6	been in the top 10 in the MVP race in four consecutive seasons. He is without a doubt. One of
1:23.6	the best players in the National League, one of the best players in baseball.
1:32.3	He's joining a lineup that, you know, basically taking the Corey Seeger spot.
1:33.6	I've said it here before.
1:35.1	I was not a huge Seeger fan.
1:36.8	Freeman's much better.
1:40.2	So it doesn't play shortstop, but a better hitter.
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