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Here's Alex Babelich and Cole Kuiper.

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Welcome to another off-season episode of Giants Talk on Cole Kuiper here with Giants Insider, Alex Pavlovich.

We're going to talk options, arbitrations, and free agents, all that really exciting behind-the-scenes stuff that happens for teams during the offseason in addition to signings.

Let's break that down what Giants available players are and what it could look like.

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All right, Alex. Let's start with player options.

Giants do love their player option roles,

although that might be something that changes in contracts going forward.

But they do have a handful of players who have the ability to decide whether they're coming back for the Giants this year.

So let's talk about some of them.

Do you want to run down the list for me of who has a player option this offseason?

Yeah, first, I mean, it's kind of tongue and cheek, like all the exciting stuff,

but like this is a huge part of the off season.

And also this is the beginning of it is really fascinating from a Giants perspective

because, you know, people would say, I don't care how much money they spend,

but there's a budget and a budget is a budget.

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