Giants Talk: A San Francisco Giants Podcast

By: Alex Pavlovic Cole Kuiper NBC Sports Bay Area
  • Summary

  • NBC Sports Bay Area’s Alex Pavlovic and Cole Kuiper, along with weekly appearances from Duane Kuiper, bring you comprehensive coverage of the San Francisco Giants. Don’t miss out on in-depth analysis, breaking news coverage and exclusive interviews with Giants players, coaches and front-office personnel. Giants Talk has new episodes year-round, so subscribe now for all your San Francisco Giants needs.
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Episodes
  • What Giants' outfield might look like for 2025 season
    Nov 26 2024

    Cole Kuiper and Alex Pavlovic are joined by Duane Kuiper to discuss the Giants' possible outfield lineup next season, how the team can balance free agency with playing time for young players, and if Madison Bumgarner could return to San Francisco as an advisor.

    1:00 – What Giants' outfield might look like for 2025 season

    5:45 – Free agency vs. giving young players opportunities

    8:00 – On having a different left-fielder every year since Barry Bonds

    10:00 – Alyssa Nakken leaes

    15:00 – Bobby Evans rejoins the team along with Jeff Berry

    20:40 – Contracts tendered for LaMonte Wade Jr., Camilo Doval and Tyler Rogers as Austin Warren re-signs

    22:00 – Awards season review

    23:30 – Carson Ragsdale and Carson Seymour are added to the 40-man roster

    24:30 – Madison Bumgarner coming back to the Giants as an advisor?

    Duane Kuiper:

    27:15 – Duane Kuiper on watching a World Series game with Mike Krukow

    29:45 – On Buster Posey taking over as President of Baseball Operations

    35:20 – Which positions the Giants need to fill this offseason

    39:00 – On who he expects to play in the outfield next season

    41:50 – Going on the Giants Hawaii trip

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    45 mins
  • Zack Minasian explains why his upbringing makes him ideal Giants GM
    Nov 19 2024

    New San Francisco Giants general manager Zack Minasian sits down with Alex Pavlovic to discuss the team's identity and why his lifetime around baseball makes him a good fit for the position. Cole Kuiper and Alex also break down Randy Winn's new role with the team and answer fan's mailbag questions.

    Intro:

    1:00 - Randy Winn named Vice President of Player Development

    7:00 - Austin Slater signs with the Chicago White Sox

    9:00 - Which Giants will be back after the non-tender deadline?

    12:15 - Mailbag Q’s

    Zack Minasian:

    22:10 - On becoming a new dad and GM

    23:20 - What an interview with Buster Posey is like

    24:15 - If the thought he had a chance at the job after Posey's press conference

    25:30 - On scouting Posey when he was a player

    27:00 - On the moment he got the GM job

    27:45 - What moves he feels stand out in his career

    29:00 - Why pitching and defense need to be the Giants' identity moving forward

    31:00 - On confidence in Giants' current pitching,

    32:45 - Tyler Fitzgerald maybe moving to 2nd and if they need to upgrade shortstop

    33:30 - Breaking down the outfield situation

    36:00 - On Luis Matos and Marco Luciano's development, expectations for next season

    38:50 - On Randy Winn becoming VP of player development, how they plan on approaching player development

    41:45 - His background growing up in MLB clubhouses, on the validation from getting the GM job

    44:30 - Dynamic between him and his brother Perry, who's GM of the Angels

    48:20 - On Tommy Lasorda being his godfather

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    48 mins
  • Might Ha-Seong Kim be part of the Giants' infield solution?
    Nov 12 2024

    Cole Kuiper and Alex Pavlovic discuss the Giants' possible infield lineup next season, including if free-agent shortstop Ha-Seong Kim could make his way to San Francisco this offseason, along with other possible options this offseason

    1:00 – Explaining what the GM meetings are for


    2:50 – Uncertainty for the Giants' offseason


    9:20 – Why so many former Giants are working together elsewhere


    12:50 – Juan Soto watch begins


    15:00 – Giants’ infielders breakdown


    17:20 – Could Ha-Seong Kim sign with the Giants?


    22:00 – Could Willy Adames sign with the Giants?


    26:30 – Can Bryce Eldridge continue his “meteoric” rise?


    31:35 – What does the future look like for Tyler Fitzgerald & Casey Schmitt?


    34:00 – Around the MLB

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    43 mins

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