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Giants Talk: A San Francisco Giants Podcast

Giants’ youth movement, Chapman’s breakout and other takeaways from big weekend

Giants Talk: A San Francisco Giants Podcast

NBC Sports Bay Area

Sports, Baseball, San Francisco Giants, Mlb

4.7824 Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2024

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Alex Pavlovic and Cole Kuiper break down the Giants' sweep of the Rockies, what the youth movement showed over the weekend and if it's sustainable for the remainder of the season. Plus, Alex and Cole discuss Jung Hoo Lee’s season-ending injury before Giants analyst George Kontos joins the show to discuss the season and challenges of reaching the major leagues. (1:30) Giants sweep Rockies at Oracle Park (6:10) Matos continues to shine for Giants (15:10) Is the Giants' offensive output sustainable? (21:14) Could Luciano be shortstop for the rest of the season? (29:02) Hicks sustains success as a starter (35:02) Lee officially out for remainder of the season (42:30) Giants-Pirates series preview (48:10) Kontos on why the Giants have struggled this season (53:45) Kontos breaks down the progression in the minors

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Giants Talk podcast. Here's Alex Pavlovich and Cole Kuiper. I know those guys.

0:17.7

What's up Giants fans? Welcome to another episode of Giants Talk. I'm Cole Kuiper here with Giants

0:22.6

Insider Alex Pavlovich. Giants got their first sweep of the year. Took all three from the red hot,

0:29.4

formerly red hot Colorado Rockies, but it's still the Rockies. We'll talk about what that means

0:35.8

and if a sweep against the Rockies means anything long-term sustainability-wise.

0:40.3

Plus, Alex sat down with NBC Sports's very own George Contos to talk about the state of the Giants.

0:46.7

You're not going to want to miss George chiming in.

0:49.6

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0:53.3

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0:59.9

Hurry in now or visit us online at sleepworld.com. All right, Alex, big picture. Giants do a sweep,

1:08.2

but it's the Rockies. Is this a, as exciting of a moment as one would expect?

1:15.7

I keep telling myself, you know, they swept the hottest team in baseball,

1:19.7

but at the end of the day, it's still the Rockies.

1:23.1

Yeah, I mean, the Rockies were playing good baseball.

1:26.3

They played ball against the Rangers that I think from what I've heard from, the Rockies were playing good baseball. They played ball against the Rangers.

1:28.6

I think from what I've heard from talking to Rockies people,

1:32.1

that was more Padres playing Borough for three days.

1:36.5

But still, like, you know, we talked about this on the last road trip.

1:40.1

Like, this is probably the worst team in the National League.

1:43.9

And at the end of the year when

1:44.8

you look up and you're sitting at 84 wins and or whatever and trying to compete with a

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