Alex Pavlovic, the long-time Giants’ beat reporter for CSN Sports Bay Area, and now the author of The Franchise: San Francisco Giants: A Curated History of the Orange and Black, which you can find at your local (or non-local) bookstore as of today. Go get it!

Alex and I talk about the Giants’ checkered history of player development before delving into the current state of affairs with the Giants’ farm system that Buster Posey inherited. Alex talks about how he thinks Posey and Randy Winn are assessing the state of the farm and what changes they are likely to institute going forward, before we get into the current Giants roster and the trials that young players like Hayden Birdsong and Landen Roupp are encountering as they navigate their first full MLB seasons.

As I head out to the Dominican Republic for a week of DSL action, I’m celebrating by offering 25% off There R Giants’ subscriptions for one year (annual or monthly). It’s a great time to become a There R Giants’ subscriber, and check out my first-hand observations of the DSL squads and hopefully plenty of video footage of young Josuar Gonzalez.

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