The Athletic’s Melissa Lockard is my guest on this week’s There R Giants podcast. We discuss some health-related issues with various players in the system and then dig in to observations on the first half of the season. Melissa does a great job covering the Giants’ and A’s farm system for The Athletic and is a must follow on Twitter @melissalockard.

And, of course, you can follow all of my work on Twitter @rog61 and get all of my work on the Giants’ farm system by subscribing to There R Giants for daily recaps and much more!

Injury Updates (1:20)Marco Luciano timeline (4:00)Weather effect on Eugene (5:30)Luis Matos’ season (7:45)Hunter Bishop (11:00)Patrick Bailey (13:40)Casey Schmitt (15:45)Carter Aldrete (17:50)Will Wilson (20:20)Looming 40-man crunch (22:00)Kyle Harrison (26:45)Randy Rodriguez (29:15)

Intro/Outro: “Summer Mood” by Best Coast

EDITOR’S NOTE: I mistakenly put “Restricted” links in today’s Stats Reviews post for the Google sheet tables — those have now been replaced with links you can see freely as usual.

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