Welcome to the Giants Talk podcast.

Here's Alex Babovich and Cole Kuiper.

I know those guys.

Hey, everybody, Alex here.

This is our first emergency podcast of 2025.

Second one of the offseason, I think.

I guess third if you count Buster, which, you know, that was the biggest move maybe of the offseason.

But anyway, I had to hop on here because the Giants are now employing Justin Burlinder.

As first reported by ESPN, one year $15 million deal, that is going to be, we'll see

what happens with Roki Sasaki, but that will be their big pitching addition, almost

certainly.

That'll be the big change to the rotation going into next season somebody

we know very very well not just because it's been around for this will be his 20th season but

also obviously has ties to the giants faced them in the 2012 world series one of the more

memorable games in franchise history so Cole's still on assignment.

So I brought in somebody who was part of that game,

George Contos, who works with me on the pre-and-post game show.

And he's coming up.

And we're going to talk about everything that this Rurlander signing means

and our first reaction, what it means for the rest of rotation,

what it means for the young pitchers, why he was the fit.

Just off the top, I think anyone who's listed in the young pitchers, um, why he was the fit. Just off the top,

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