MLB trade deadline preview: Will Giants sell high on Snell?

Giants Talk: A San Francisco Giants Podcast

NBC Sports Bay Area

Mlb, Sports, San Francisco Giants, Baseball

4.4 • 630 Ratings

🗓️ 29 July 2024

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Alex Pavlovic and Cole Kuiper discuss the Giants’ four-game sweep against the Colorado Rockies, how this will affect the upcoming MLB trade deadline and which potential veterans could be on the move. Plus, George Kontos stops by to discuss his personal experience with being traded, the haul San Francisco could get for Blake Snell and why he believes the Giants still have a chance at making the playoffs. (1:10) Giants sweep Rockies at Oracle (7:50) How should Giants approach the trade deadline? (13:50) Potential players who could be traded (19:20) Predictions for the trade deadline (26:10) Can Fitzgerald continue his solid play? (31:20) Kontos breaks down the trade deadline (38:50) Kontos on if the Giants should buy or sell

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Giants Talk podcast.
0:09.4	Here's Alex Babelich and Cole Kuiper.
0:12.9	I know those guys.
0:18.0	What's up, Giants fans?
0:19.6	Welcome to another episode of Giant Stock.
0:21.5	I'm Cole Kuiper here with Giants Insider Alex Havlovich.
0:25.0	Giant sweep the Rockies in four games.
0:27.7	Just when we thought it was over, they clawed us back in.
0:31.5	We're going to talk about that series.
0:32.7	Plus, George Contos joins Alex to talk trade deadline as someone who's been part of it.
0:37.8	Can't wait to hear what George has to say. Before we get started, though, Giant Stock is presented
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0:53.0	at SleepWorld.com. All right, Alex, giants sweep the Rockies,
0:57.9	and it was a doozy for how poorly they played at Coors Field. This was a whole different ball club.
1:05.0	But with the caveat of how excited do we get about this heading into the trade deadline knowing
1:09.9	this was the Colorado
1:11.0	Robbins?
1:12.7	Wait, was it a different ball club or are the Rockies just different on the road?
1:17.0	That's a great question. Or are the Giants just toxic at Coors Field?
1:21.4	They have lost 12 straight at Oracle Park, so they're not very good. They're especially not very good, especially not very good at Oracle
1:31.9	Park. And they kind of like, look, they're 14 and 40 on the road. So they're like the worst team in
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