There R Giants Pod-196 with Joe Salermo

Once again this year, I’m privileged to have Giants’ Senior Director of International Scouting, Joe Salermo, on the podcast to talk about the latest class of international signees into the Giants’ organization. That class is headed by a player that many evaluators consider the top 16-year-old talent this year, shortstop Josuar de Jesus Gonzalez, and we talk a lot about that young man (including what we should call him). Joe also discusses the other recently signed players, the impact that Rōki Sasaki had on this year’s process, and we look back to the performance of previous year’s players as they make their way up the Giants’ system.

A lot of those players are going to be showing up in this year’s There R Giants’ Top 50 which will be rolling out starting next week — which makes this a great time to become a There R Giants’ subscriber.

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