Giants spring training update, additions to roster, and Kuip's new MLB rules

Giants Talk: A San Francisco Giants Podcast

NBC Sports Bay Area

Mlb, Sports, San Francisco Giants, Baseball

4.4 • 630 Ratings

🗓️ 25 February 2021

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Cole Kuiper and Alex Pavlovic, along with Duane Kuiper, discuss the latest news from Giants spring training, including Sam Young’s impressive performance, LaMonte Wade Jr.’s potential with the Giants and the addition of MLB veteran Scott Kazmir. Plus, what two rules does Kuip think MLB should institute for the upcoming season? (1:20) Giants sign Kazmir to minor league deal (4:51) Sam Long turning heads at Giants camp (9:40) Will Wade Jr. continue to impress? (15:10) Kuiper discusses the challenge of facing taller pitchers (22:30) Kuiper weighs in on Sanchez’s potential (24:40) Kuip details two rules changes that need to happen before the 2021 season

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Giants Talk podcast.
0:09.4	Here's Alex Babelich and Cole Kuiper.
0:12.9	I know those guys.
0:16.8	Hello everyone.
0:17.8	Welcome to Giants Talk.
0:19.5	I'm Cole Kuyper.
0:20.4	We're here with Alex Pavlovich, and we're going to talk Giants baseball with you every Monday and Thursday right here at the NBC Sports Podcasting Network.
0:28.3	Giant's Talk is brought to you by Wendy's. Get the breakfast you deserve with Wendy's two for $4. That's two fresh-made breakfast sandwiches for just four bucks.
0:36.8	Price and participation may vary and I
0:39.5	might head first thing tomorrow morning do that because I love myself a breakfast
0:43.5	sandwich I do as well I think we you know the more this goes on the more it's
0:48.2	it's just making me hungry a week after week to go and actually take advantage
0:52.8	yeah we're gonna have to Alex eats andes lunch ourselves a little bit of Wendy's.
0:57.8	Right off the bat, Giants made an unexpected move.
1:00.8	I don't think anyone had on their bingo card in signing 37-year-old Scott Casimir,
1:06.2	who hasn't appeared in the big leagues since 2016.
1:10.7	Right off the bat, first response thoughts, let's hear.
1:14.9	I think I laughed right off.
1:17.7	Not because it's a bad move or anything like that,
1:20.6	just because it was like, look, we've grown so accustomed to just the Giants
1:25.6	looking anywhere for pitching and anywhere for a contribution.
1:28.9	And you hear something like Scott Casimir and you go like,
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