Welcome to the Giants Talk podcast.

Here's Alex Babovich and Cole Kiper.

I know those guys.

What's up, Giants fans?

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

Laura Britt. Alex Pavlovich is still on assignment. He actually is completely leaving baseball after

this show Hey Otani news. He's, I don't know where he'll end up. Tennis, football, basketball,

but he's out of the baseball game and more power to him

because, wow, the more details that come out about this Shohei Otani deal, it just can't get worse.

We're going to break that down today on Giants Talk plus what the Giants are going to have option-wise

on the table now that Shohei is off. And Gwen Kuiper will be joining us later on to give his take on the situation.

We haven't had him on the show in a while.

So fantastic.

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online at sleepworld.com. All right, Laura, let's talk Shohei Otani's heavily deferred contract.

We talked in our emergency podcast how it was confirmed Shohei was a Dodger, the worst possible situation for Giants fans, and yet it might

have got worse.

Yeah, it's, it's a bit surprising when you start to look at the actual numbers.

So there were a lot of reports that a lot of his money was deferred, but we're talking like

a lot, a lot,

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