Patrick Bailey interview: Catcher shares keys to 2024 season, strengths of Giants’ young pitching staff

Giants Talk: A San Francisco Giants Podcast

NBC Sports Bay Area

Mlb, Sports, Baseball, San Francisco Giants

4.7 • 824 Ratings

🗓️ 26 February 2024

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Alex Pavlovic and Cole Kuiper break down Kyle Harrison’s impressive first outing in Arizona, some recent MLB signings and which pitching prospects could make their way to the big leagues this season. Plus, Patrick Bailey joins Alex Pavlovic and Laura Britt from spring training to discuss what he has learned from Bob Melvin, his keys to a successful year and the youth on the Giants' pitching staff. (1:35) Giants' offense off to cold start (7:10) Harrison impresses in first outing (15:36) Analyzing recent MLB signings (25:00) How will Bellinger’s Cubs deal influence other free agents? (29:09) Bailey on being the starting catcher (32:33) Bailey breaks down the Giants’ young pitching

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Giants Talk podcast.
0:09.0	Here's Alex Babelovich and Cole Kuiper.
0:13.0	I know those guys.
0:18.0	Hey, what's up, Giants fans?
0:20.0	Welcome to another episode of Giants Talk.
0:21.7	I'm Cole Kuiper here with Alex Pavlovich, who was there on ground in person at the first spring training game of the year.
0:29.6	Alex has some updates from spring training telling us how the boys looked.
0:33.2	Plus, he and Laura Britt sat down with Patrick Bailey in Scottsdale to talk about, I don't know, baseball, life.
0:40.3	What did you guys talk about, Alex?
0:41.9	Baseball?
0:42.6	Mostly baseball.
0:43.6	I don't know if there was.
0:44.6	Makes sense.
0:45.1	You know what happens is we do like, it's like a, I don't even know how to describe it.
0:52.1	It's like we do like seven of these sometimes in a day so like a junket
0:56.7	yeah basically so except the opposite because it's just me and we're sitting there a bunch of guys
1:02.7	coming through um and so after literally like 20 minutes later you could ask me what did you talk to
1:08.7	Patrick about and that'd be like I don't know since then we've talked to Saler and like, Junkhu Lee. So I don't know.
1:15.6	That's great, Alex. Do I have a podcast for you? You can find this interview on Giants topic. No, it's baseball. We did talk a little bit about a, obviously people notice he put on some weight in the
1:28.4	offseason i told not to worry um he explained it and you know bomb melvin and then i i did want to
1:36.5	get his take on some of the young pitchers so i thought that was that was fun to just run
1:40.6	through some of the young pitching prospects and say, Patrick, tell us about this
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