With Giants alone atop NL West, how optimistic should fans be?

Giants Talk: A San Francisco Giants Podcast

NBC Sports Bay Area

Mlb, Sports, San Francisco Giants, Baseball

4.4 • 630 Ratings

🗓️ 3 May 2021

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Alex Pavlovic and Cole Kuiper discuss the success of the Giants' pitching staff this season, how optimistic the fan base should be moving forward and if Buster Posey should be playing more to help lift the struggling offense. (1:06) Should Giants feel optimistic after series with Padres? (7:00) Tauchman fitting in nicely with Giants (14:30) Did Flores need to do more in late game at-bat? (18:50) Could Posey play more first base this season? (23:52) Will Belt bounce back against the Rockies? (28:16) Giants release minor league rosters (35:30) Is the NL West the best division in MLB?

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Giants Talk podcast.
0:09.3	Here's Alex Babovich and Cole Kuiper.
0:12.9	I know those guys.
0:16.2	Hi, everyone. I'm Cole Kuiper here with Giants Insider Alex Pavlovich, and we're part of Giants Talk.
0:23.0	Right here on the NBC Sports Podcast Network, Giants Talk comes to you every Monday and Thursday, and is brought to you by Wendy's.
0:30.1	Get yourself a 199 honey butter chicken biscuit today.
0:34.8	That's just not a sponsor read.
0:36.5	That is a personal recommendation on behalf of
0:38.9	Cole Kiper. Same. Same? Yes. Double, double recommendation. Enough said. These are two guys that
0:47.2	like their food. So that comes from the heart. Giants are coming right out of San Diego,
0:52.6	lost the series, two wins for the Padres, one for the Giants,
0:56.6	and yet, why do I feel so strangely optimistic about this series, Alex? Yeah, I felt this even before
1:03.2	today's game, I felt it's not a win, but I was like, I feel better about them. And people
1:09.4	who have been listening to us know that I've
1:11.1	been kind of like, let me see somebody that's not the Mariners, let me see somebody that's not the Rockies.
1:15.8	And I really felt that way mostly about the starting pitching and wanted to see how they would do.
1:19.8	And I thought Logan Webb did a nice job on Friday, made one mistake. DeScofani did a nice job on Saturday. Again, made one mistake. It cost those guys five combined runs on two pitches.
1:30.5	But I thought both of them pitched really well, and both of them went six innings.
1:34.6	And then Gosman goes out there Sunday, six innings, one run.
1:38.0	I don't even think he made a mistake.
1:39.7	He just got hit on a pitch out of the zone by a super freak.
1:43.3	So that to me is like, look, they left the bases voted a million times.
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