How Chapman’s contract impacts potential Snell signing; Schmitt 1-on-1 interview

Giants Talk: A San Francisco Giants Podcast

NBC Sports Bay Area

Mlb, Sports, Baseball, San Francisco Giants

4.7 • 824 Ratings

🗓️ 4 March 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Alex Pavlovic and Laura Britt are joined by Casey Schmitt to break down his versatile Giants role, how a new coaching staff influences San Francisco's overall roster and why it's time for the team's youth movement. Plus, Alex and Cole Kuiper discuss Matt Chapman's arrival and how it impacts the potential signing of Blake Snell. (1:05) Going in depth on the Chapman addition (6:10) Analyzing the Giants’ lineup with Chapman (11:36) Farhan Zaidi details Giants' future free-agency plans (21:10) Luis Matos shining in spring training (29:01) What does the future hold for J.D. Davis? (36:32) Schmitt on his versatile role (38:49) Schmitt on the Giants’ youth movement (40:33) Schmitt details new coaching staff's impact

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Giants Talk podcast.
0:09.0	Here's Alex Pavlovich and Cole Kuiper.
0:13.0	I know those guys.
0:18.0	Hey, what's up, Giants fans?
0:20.0	Welcome to another episode of Giants Talk.
0:21.4	I'm Cole Kuiper here with Alex Pavlovich.
0:23.7	We're going to talk Matt Chapman since I missed the emergency podcast.
0:28.0	Plus, if there are any moves left to be made and stick around to the end, Alex and Laura Brits sat down with Casey Schmidt.
0:35.4	Don't miss that.
0:36.6	Let's get started with a shout out to our sponsor.
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0:49.5	at sleepworld.com. All right, Alex. So did you got to see this coming?
0:56.5	Um, a little bit. I mean, we all saw Chapman coming, right? Like, it was, my lead in my story
1:02.4	the other night was this was like the worst kept secret in camp that Bob Melton wanted Matt
1:06.6	Chapman that, you know, both sides felt it was a pretty good fit. Matt Williams wanted Matt Chapman. So it's like the new guys wanted Matt Chapman that, you know, both sides felt it was a pretty good fit. Matt Williams wanted Matt
1:12.4	Chapman. So it's like the new guys wanted Matt Chapman. And they got a lot less money than we thought,
1:18.7	but also you could be out of here in a year and get more money. So we'll see. That was the interesting
1:23.8	thing I thought on Sunday morning when it became official was like there is a fourth year in there so this could end up being like potentially the rest of his career um or he could be gone
1:34.1	seven months it was kind of weird to me that the giants announced it like framed it as a one year
1:40.7	deal do you know anything about why that would have been done?
1:44.5	That was asked today and it was basically like, there's nothing to it.
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