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There R Giants Pod-238 with Shayna Rubin SF Chronicle’s Giants’ beat writer, Shayna Rubin, joins me this week to talk about camp battles and young players making impressions early on in camp.There R Giants is a reader-supported publication.

New pod! @shaynarubin.bsky.social drops by to talk camp competition and young players standing out in SF Giants' spring training camp. open.substack.com/pub/rogermun...

I’m not sure about two from the draft being Top 100. Their second pick isn’t until 55. Possible they can float a pretty nice pick there but it’s not going to be somebody who jumps onto anybody’s top 100

There R Giants Pod-237 with Jim Callis As signs of baseball spring to life once again, MLB’s Jim Callis returns to talk Spring Breakout series, an improving Giants’ farm system, and we even sneak in a little early draft talk!

New pod! @jimcallis.bsky.social joins me to talk Spring Breakout games, young players in Giants' camp, and a little early draft talk as well! open.substack.com/pub/rogermun...

Having a grandfather who's in the bluegrass HOF and an uncle who's a Grammy winning country guitarist probably helps. But really, NOVA is plenty country music inclined.

Somebody needs to ask Bryce Eldridge if he and Ilia Malinin crossed paths growing up in Vienna, VA.

Congrats to Hector Borg and Shane Robinson for getting their first MLB staff coaching jobs. Borg has been a mainstay for the orgs PD system for years now, particularly helping you international players. Robinson was OF coordinator for farm last yr, obv an area of focus for MLB team in ‘26

There R Giants Pod-235 with Luis de la Torre My guest this week is Giants’ left-hander, Luis de la Torre, who is coming off one of the biggest and most unexpected break out campaigns of 2025.

Giants lefty Luis de la Torre joins me to talk about his brilliant breakout season in 2025, and his big plans to follow that up in the coming year. Could DLT be pushing for a 40-man spot in a year? Let's talk! open.substack.com/pub/rogermun...

Very excited for a lot of guys who have worked hard to get to point of big league camp invites. I know both Bednar and Harris told me they were really hoping! And kids like Sanchez, Bericoto have had a very long road to get here. Congrats to all!

The cognitive dissonance between Sutter Health Park's park factor reputation as a minor league park and it's park factor reputation as major league park, is one of the few truly delightful consequences of the A's move.

There R Giants Pod-234 with Michael Holmes Giants’ Senior Director of Amateur Scouting, Michael Holmes is my guest this week.

Giants Senior Director of Amateur Scouting joined me on the latest TRG pod to talk about the process for honing in on #4 pick in the draft this summer open.substack.com/pub/rogermun...

Carlos Martinez Throw YouTube video by Roger Munter

Giants have traded 18-yo catcher Carlos Martinez to Marlins for additional IFA bonus money. This should enable them to sign more players connected to them in this cycle (eg Israel Alfonse, Johan Rengifo, or Jose Valdez).

Martinez showed promise as receiver in debut
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2026 There R Giants Top 50: #46-50 The ones who held on

Let's get this year's There R Giants' Top 50 started! open.substack.com/pub/rogermun...

There R Giants Pod-233 with Joe Salermo Once again this year, Giants’ Senior International Scouting Director, Joe Salermo, joins me to talk about the January 15 international signing class.

SF Giants' Senior International Scouting Director, Joe Salermo, once again joins me this year to talk about shortstop Luis Hernandez and the many exciting developments coming through the Giants' international scouting and development arm. open.substack.com/pub/rogermun...

Giants Continue Strong Run of Top International Talent by Signing Shortstop Luis Hernandez Photo Credit: San Francisco Giants

It's been a very good 12 months for the Giants' International Scouting Department and Player Development Group! open.substack.com/pub/rogermun...

There R Giants Pod-229 with Eric Longenhagen To celebrate the winter meetings, I’m having a double podcast week!

It's a double-pod week! I got a chance to chat with Eric Longenhagen direct from the winter meetings. We talk the end of the Marco Luciano dream, Rule 5 targets, Spencer Miles' and Parks Harber's strong showing in the AFL, and much more! open.substack.com/pub/rogermun...

There R Giants Pod-228 with Maria Guardado (update) I’m not sure exactly why, but it appears that the post for today’s podcast went out with no media attached to it, so there’s nothing to listen to when you try to play it.

And second, a conversation with Giants' beat writer Maria Guardado of MLB dot com on the Giants situation as they approach these meetings. open.substack.com/pub/rogermun...

The "Ho Ho Ho" Edition of the Free For All Mailbag Welcome to the holidays.

To help celebrate the opening of Winter Meetings, I have a couple of Free For All items today at There R Giants. First, a new mailbag... open.substack.com/pub/rogermun...

Yeah, Mets are obviously more motivated than Cardinals, though I'm not sure how wide that gulf is likely to be. I think Sanchez might be the harder one to get of the group

I actually like Donovan more as a target anyway. They don’t need to turn yet another defensive position into a toxic waste dump with adding McNeil certainly does

That feels optimistic to me given the conversations I’ve had with players who have gone through it

I’ve seen a lot of people talking about McNeil but doesn’t his TOS put him out of action for a significant spell of ‘26?

Thanks! Yeah it’s a daily thing for my work most of the time!

Today is first day I noticed. Can’t say when last time I used it was but certainly within last month. Definitely since season ended

No it’s been on minor league pages for years. I used it almost every day in doing my work.

I'm mostly using minor league pages and spot checked three of them. Just looking around a bit more, the MLB player pages appear to be working for me but not the MiLB.

Hey Adam, I'm noticing today that when I look at Player Game Logs, when I use Command-Click to select a specific set of games, I'm not getting the split summary box popping up. That's by far my favorite function. It's not going away is it?

Monday/wednesday?

It also sounds like Gonzalez may have grown some in the past year, which will be an important part of Hernandez's path as well. If his game is going to be based around power, you'd like to see a couple more inches on the height

Absolutely. (I also think that a lot of fans really do underrate the importance of the RHH vs LHH/SHH distinction. Not having to deal with same side RH sliders is a huge advantage for a young player

Jacob Misiorowski finds control on and off the mound in his tremendous start Eric Samulski talks with Jacob Misiorowski about the keys to the strong start to his MLB career

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