Mitch Haniger on being ‘perfect fit’ with Giants, continuing the team’s ‘rich' championship history

Giants Talk: A San Francisco Giants Podcast

NBC Sports Bay Area

Mlb, Sports, San Francisco Giants, Baseball

4.4 • 630 Ratings

🗓️ 20 March 2023

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Mitch Haniger joins this episode of Giants Talk to break down why he signed with the Giants this offseason, growing up in the Bay Area as a fan of the team and how important it is to him to continue San Francisco’s championship legacy. (3:13) Opening Day nears for Giants, other MLB teams (8:02) Romo to retire with Giants (17:19) How quick will games be this season? (25:01) Will the Giants steal more bases this season? (33:30) Remembering some Giants (41:40) Haniger on growing up a Giants fan (46:13) Haniger on the challenge of playing at Oracle Park

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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.
0:17.5	You're there, Giants fans.
0:19.3	Welcome to another episode of Giants Talk. I'm Cole Kuiper here with Giants Insider, Alex Pavlovich. We're bringing more updates from Scottsdale as spring training winds down in the regular seasons upon us. I just got back from a weekend there. So I've got all the insights. Plus, Sergio Romo officially back in the orange and black to
0:39.8	retire as a giant. And then we'll be wrapping this episode up with the Mitch Hanager interview
0:45.4	courtesy of Alex and the one and only Laura Britt. So stay tuned. This is going to be a fun episode.
0:51.8	We're 10 days away from opening day. So as we've been doing
0:55.2	the last few, let's, let's, let's rattle off some number 10s in Giants history. I guess the most
1:00.8	recent one would be Evan Longoria, who wore it for what one of the longest 10th year number 10s,
1:07.6	I think the Giants have ever had. Yeah, Snakey was here in like a very long time.
1:12.7	So he's, he was a, when he left, you're like, oh, Austin Slater's the second longest tenure
1:18.8	giant. Longo is here a long time. But yeah, he's the one that comes to mind for me as well.
1:23.1	I don't know if they don't know for 10 right now. I don't think so right now, but when I go through the list on baseball Almanac,
1:28.9	we've got first round of Travis Ishikawa with the Giants, not the World Series champion
1:35.2	Travis Ishiqa, but the 2009 Travis Hichikawa.
1:41.4	Let's see, Dave Roberts Roberts good Dodger
1:44.3	Matt Williams
1:45.5	another early
1:46.5	in the career number
1:47.6	I don't know why
1:48.3	he changed to number nine
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