Why Bob Melvin felt it was necessary to shake up Giants' lineup

Giants Talk: A San Francisco Giants Podcast

NBC Sports Bay Area

Mlb, Sports, San Francisco Giants, Baseball

4.4 • 630 Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2025

⏱️ 49 minutes

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San Francisco manager Bob Melvin sits down with Alex Pavlovic and Laura Britt on "Giants Talk" to explain why he felt it was necessary to shake up the team's lineup following their recent offensive struggle

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0:10.0	Welcome to the Giants Talk Podcast.
0:16.0	Here's Alex Babelich and Cole Kuiper.
0:20.0	I know those guys.
0:28.6	Hey, what's up, Giants fans? Welcome to another episode of Giants Talk. I'm Cole Kuiper here with Giants Insider Alex Pavlovich. We're talking Giants versus Diamondbacks.
0:34.6	Series didn't go the way we hoped. We'll break down what went wrong and what it means for the rest of the season.
0:40.3	Plus, Alex sat down with the skipper himself, Bob Melvin.
0:44.3	So stay tuned to hear from one of the most important voices from the Giants organization.
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1:15.6	Just for exactly to hone in on what over 50 years means, they opened in 1969 when the Giants roster was Willie Mays, Willie McCovee, Juan Marischel, Gaylord Perry, Jim Davenport, Bobby
1:29.0	Bonds. A good year is what I'm saying. A good year for the Giants. Yeah, Bobby Bonds breakout
1:33.5	season that year. Yeah. You're right after they almost moved to Canada, right before they
1:39.1	traded everybody. So for more on this, my book will be out soon.
1:47.0	I was like, oh, that was a weird stage of Giants history.
1:49.2	Yeah, it really was.
1:56.1	If you're a young man who is not familiar with Bobby Bonds' career,
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