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Giants Talk: A San Francisco Giants Podcast

How Peréz injury impacts the catcher position, previewing the Giants-Dodgers series

Giants Talk: A San Francisco Giants Podcast

NBC Sports Bay Area

Sports, Baseball, San Francisco Giants, Mlb

4.7824 Ratings

🗓️ 10 April 2023

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Alex Pavlovic and Cole Kuiper discuss the Giants’ home opener series, how Roberto Peréz's injury will impact the catcher position, and the two discuss Bryce Johnson's elite base running abilities. Plus, Alex and Cole preview the Giants seres against the Dodgers. (0:49) Looking back at the Giants opening series at home against the Royals (4:47) Deciphering how Kapler has used Manaea and Stripling early this season (11:47) Johnson's elite base running abilities (16:02) Discussing Oracle Park's new crab fries and beer deals (21:03) How Peréz's injury will impact the catcher position (26:25) Ruf back with the Giants on a minor league deal (31:00) Previewing the Giants-Dodgers series

Transcript

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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.

0:17.0

Hey, what's up, Giants fans?

0:19.0

Welcome to another episode of Giants Talk. I'm Cole Kuyper here with

0:21.7

Giants Insider Alex Pavlovich. Today we're going to be talking about the Giants home opener

0:26.9

series dropped to the Royals 2 to 1. A little bit of catcher dramas showing up early in this season

0:34.9

that's worth talking about. Plus, the Dodgers are coming to town.

0:39.6

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0:45.5

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0:54.4

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0:58.5

Let's talk home opener.

1:00.1

Alex, it was a fun night.

1:01.1

The game didn't go great, but it was good to be back at the ballpark for meaningful

1:05.4

baseball.

1:06.0

It started off with a bang with the recently retired Mike Murphy throwing out the first pitch

1:12.2

to Brandon Crawford. Yeah, I mean, once he was there, you're like, oh, this is the perfect

1:17.5

choice. So obviously, yeah.

1:19.8

Five years, obvious choice. Someone who I've known for a long time, my whole career, doesn't

1:25.7

like the spotlight, but that was a cool moment. Yeah, I think doesn't like the spotlight but that was a that was a cool moment

1:29.7

yeah i think doesn't like the spotlight is understatement of the year yeah but he's he's been a

1:36.7

person who's been super meaningful to every player who's come through this organization um and i know

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