Kuip breaks down Flores’ contract extension, the Littell-Kapler incident

Giants Talk: A San Francisco Giants Podcast

NBC Sports Bay Area

Mlb, Sports, San Francisco Giants, Baseball

4.4 • 630 Ratings

🗓️ 15 September 2022

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Duane Kuiper joins Alex Pavlovic and Cole Kuiper to discuss the impact Wilmer Flores has in the Giants’ locker room and why his contract extension is a step in the right direction for the team, Also, Kuip shares why he was impressed with Gabe Kapler after the incident on the mound with Zack Littell and how the new MLB rule changes surprised him. (1:17) Flores agrees to contract extension with Giants (7:24) What will the infield look like next season? (11:09) Looking at the Littell-Kapler incident (18:31) Is Doval a top-end MLB closer? (24:19) Kuip weighs in on the Littell-Kapler incident (31:14) Kuip discusses Flores’ new contract (36:10) Kuip shares his thoughts on the new MLB rule changes

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Giants Talk podcast. Here's Alex Babovich and Cole Kuiper. I know those guys.
0:17.7	Hello, hello, Giants fans. Welcome to another episode of Giants Talk today. Alex and I are going to be
0:25.2	talking about Wilmer Flores's big extension. I'm going to definitely dedicate a little bit of time to
0:31.0	what is here for known as the Zach Letell incident. And Dwight Kuyper is going to be joining us
0:37.4	later on as with most of our Thursday episodes.
0:40.0	Another thing we're going to make sure we mention, though, is that Giants Talk is presented by Wendy's Breakfast.
0:45.0	Do breakfast better.
0:46.9	Wake up to oven-baked bacon and savory sausage inside a breakfast baconator.
0:51.1	Start looking forward to tomorrow morning at participating U.S. Weddies during
0:54.8	breakfast hours only. Alex, right up the top, Giants are starting to solidify their future,
1:01.3	their 2023 team, and that starts with Wilmer Flores. Two years, $13 million. I'm not surprised Wilmer Flores is coming back. He's a great fit for the team,
1:13.5	and it seems like he really loves playing in San Francisco. He really is. I think there's going to be
1:20.1	a lot that goes on in the next few months. I think the, what is it, Q rating, approval rating.
1:26.5	It was pretty close to overwhelming overwhelmingly
1:31.7	positive on this one um i just you know it's a salty group on twitter these days and i just did not
1:38.9	see a lot of uh of anger just i think a lot of people happy that Wilmer's back. And for good reason,
1:45.4	he's a valuable player.
1:47.0	I think,
1:47.9	you know,
1:48.1	this is a cliche,
1:49.0	but I think he's a winning baseball player.
1:50.7	Like,
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