Kuip on the Giants' middle infield; Harrison, Luciano and more prospect breakdown

Giants Talk: A San Francisco Giants Podcast

NBC Sports Bay Area

Mlb, Sports, San Francisco Giants, Baseball

4.4 • 630 Ratings

🗓️ 19 January 2023

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Duane Kuiper joins Alex Pavlovic and Cole Kuiper to discuss his memories of Brandon Belt, what the loss of Evan Longoria means to the Giants' infield defense and what he is looking forward to for Spring Training. Plus, Alex and Cole break down what the immediate future holds for Kyle Harrison and if Marco Luciano is the shortstop of the future. (1:19) Giants have two of MLB’s top prospects (7:24) What position will Luciano play in the majors? (13:18) Expectations for Ramos in 2023 (21:13) Kuip on the departures of Longoria, Belt (34:43) Kuip shares his concerns on the middle infield

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Giants Talk podcast.
0:09.4	Here's Alex Pavlovich and Cole Kuiper.
0:13.0	I know those guys.
0:17.2	What's up?
0:18.4	Listeners, welcome to Giants Talk.
0:20.3	I'm Cole Kuyper here with Giants Insider, Alex Pavlovich. Today we're going to be Giants talking about prospects. Giants got a couple on the Baseball America Top 100. Plus, Dwayne Kuyper is going to be joining us later on to talk Brandon Belt, talk Mike Murphy, and talk state of the Giants heading into spring training.
0:39.0	Let's talk prospects, Alex.
0:40.3	We haven't done a prospect talk in a while.
0:42.3	I feel like when you and I first started doing Giants talk together, it was all prospect talk
0:46.9	all the time.
0:48.4	And then 2021 happened.
0:50.4	And the whole organization kind of pivoted away from prospects, away from the up-and-comers.
0:57.3	So the Baseball America Top 100 was announced.
1:01.9	Giants have two guys on it.
1:04.4	Face value, that sounds like a good thing.
1:06.8	But that is down from previous years with some of those guys who were on the top 100
1:12.0	previously, not having gotten called up really to the big things.
1:16.8	Yeah, it's a weird thing.
1:18.5	Like we, this is like top 100 season right here, like right before spring training.
1:23.7	And, you know, there's a few lists, MLB pipelines doing their top 10 lists of each position.
1:30.7	And there's always that caveat that, like, these things ultimately don't matter too much or at all, really.
1:38.7	I mean, it's just a list.
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