Giants Talk: Where outfield, bullpen stand one week before MLB Opening Day
On "Giants Talk," co-hosts Alex Pavlovic and Cole Kuiper discuss how San Francisco's bullpen and outfield are shaping up for the 2026 MLB season
Giants Talk: Where outfield, bullpen stand one week before MLB Opening Day originally appeared on NBC Sports Bay Area
Video Transcript
All right.
What about the outfield?
This is where I think, you know, the guy who's made the biggest move recently, I, I think is Jurar Encarnacion, who I, I would guess coming into camp, if you could go into those meetings behind closed doors, they probably wanted him to do this.
Mm-hmm.
To, to, force the issue, as you said, and he's really been good the last couple weeks.
And really just, you know, listening to Tony talk about him, like he We're reading between the lines a lot with Tony, but this one, he just kind of comes out and says like, "I really respect how hard he's playing, how hard he's playing defensively."
Like, a couple times he's gone out of his way to compliment Jurar and, and something he's done defensively or running the bases and those aren't the reasons he's gonna be on the team.
But, you know, if you ask me today, a week from opening day, I think, I think it looks like he's probably gonna be the DH on opening night against- Yeah Max Freed.
So, I think he's put himself in a nice spot.
Matos, I You could carry both of them early on.
I would love to see them, if they carry Jurar, just kind of that second piece is like a speed guy.
Figure it out.
And then the last thing I think here is just the bullpen and the state of that group, and a few questions there.
They talked about taking three lefties and Joey Lucchesi, who just showed up, is like pitching in games.
So, Eric Miller's back.
Matt Gage, a, you know, very comfortable position I think for him.
But I don't think they'll take three lefties early on.
Lucchesi you could probably still play a little bit 'cause he got here late.
But my big question would be, do they keep some of the young guys?
And yeah, that's, that's- Yeah I think will be questioned over the next week with that group.
