Giants pitching breakdown with Matt Daniels

Giants Talk: A San Francisco Giants Podcast

NBC Sports Bay Area

Mlb, Sports, San Francisco Giants, Baseball

4.4 • 630 Ratings

🗓️ 3 February 2021

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

On this episode of Balk Talk, Jessica Kleinschmidt is joined by Giants Coordinator of Pitching Sciences Matt Daniels to discuss the Giants’ philosophy on pitching, which players to keep an eye on this season and who is the best MLB pitcher of all-time. (1:34) Daniels discusses his role in the Giants organization (6:50) Daniels details the off-site training in 2020 (12:27) Daniels reveals which MLB pitcher he wants to work with (16:50) Giants to keep an eye on in 2021

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Boc Talk podcast on NBC Sports Bay Area.com.
0:11.1	Introducing your host, NBC Sports Bay Area's Jessica Kleinschmidt.
0:16.3	Welcome back to another episode of Bok Talk presented by Wendy's.
0:19.5	New to the Wendy's 2 for $5 lineup is our classic chicken sandwich, the perfect balance
0:24.2	of crispy and juicy.
0:25.8	Price and participation may vary, limited time only.
0:29.3	I'm excited to be joined by Giants Coordinator of Pitching Science Matt Daniels.
0:34.6	Not only that, but like we're friends.
0:36.5	And I love when my friends are actually on.
0:38.8	So this is an exciting day for me. I'm glad you're here. Thanks for joining us.
0:42.6	Well, thank you for having me. I'm glad to be here.
0:45.2	So we were joking on before we pressed record, your title of coordinator of pitching sciences.
0:51.3	First, it just sounds cool, but also extremely nerdy and analytical, which is great.
0:57.0	But what, what do you do, Matt? Like, what exactly do you do with the title like that?
1:03.6	Yeah, I'm on year three on this job, and I'm not sure people actually know what I do.
1:09.1	Okay. So, more or less, I am one of the Meyer League pitching coordinators.
1:15.9	So you have like Justin Lear, who's the lead coordinator, and Clay Rapada, who's the
1:19.6	assistant coordinator.
1:21.0	And essentially, I function as another assistant coordinator.
1:24.1	However, we each have various skill sets that we bring to the table.
1:29.9	And one of mine is specifically to help integrate like ball flight analytics and
1:35.6	biomechanics and all these different types of variables into helping create complete player
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