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Giants Talk: A San Francisco Giants Podcast

Kai Correa discusses unique path to Giants' coaching staff, Gabe Kapler's strengths as manager

Giants Talk: A San Francisco Giants Podcast

NBC Sports Bay Area

Mlb, Sports, San Francisco Giants, Baseball

4.4 • 630 Ratings

🗓️ 19 July 2021

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Giants bench coach Kai Correa joins Alex Pavlovic and Cole Kuiper to discuss his unique journey to the Giants' coaching staff, Gabe Kapler’s strengths as an MLB manager and shares some life hacks that have helped him succeed in his profession.  (1:55) Giants drop series to Cardinals  (5:10) Are the Giants too reliant on the home run?  (10:11) Will Ruf stay after Belt returns from injury? (16:20) Correa on his coaching journey to the Giants  (24:14) Fact or Faction with Kai Correa  (29:19) Correa reveals what has surprised him about Crawford this season  (33:40) Correa breaks down some of the Giants’ top prospects

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Giants Talk podcast.

0:09.3

Here's Alex Babelovich and Cole Kuiper.

0:12.9

I know those guys.

0:16.3

Hi, everyone.

0:17.3

Welcome to Giants Talk.

0:18.7

I'm Cole Kuiper, along with Giants Insider, Alex Kavlovich, and we're the hosts of Giants Talk. It's podcast drops, new episodes every Monday and Thursday

0:26.5

right here on the NBC Sports Podcast Network, available wherever you get your pods. Later on this

0:32.7

episode, we're going to be joined by Kai Karea, one of the most fascinating dudes in the Giants coaching staff.

0:39.0

I learned a lot about him, Alex.

0:41.2

I don't know how you, how well you knew Kai before this.

0:44.2

Yeah, I've been pushing to have Kai on here for a while because I think he is really

0:47.7

interesting and has a really interesting backstory and had some life hacks for us,

0:51.6

which are maybe game changers, as we take road trips and

0:55.3

things like that. So just a really interesting story and kind of a meteoric rise through the

1:00.8

coaching ranks and through, you know, from a small college to the Cleveland Indians where he was

1:06.4

a minor league defensive coordinator for him, to being Gabe Capwood's number two and being the number

1:11.3

two now for the best team in baseball for most of this season like that that usually gets you

1:15.4

interviews for the big job if this season keeps going this way so wanted to get him on here

1:20.9

for a while I think he lived up to our expectations a fun interview that's coming up definitely so

1:26.1

stick around for that first as you might be, I got to remind you that Giant Stock is brought to you by Wendy's.

1:33.0

Right now, at Wendy's, get two breakfast sandwiches for just four bucks.

1:37.8

That is, four bucks is about as many dollars per runner stranded an inning for the Giants this past series.

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