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Giants broadcaster Duane Kuiper believes that Major League Baseball’s new collective bargaining agreement is to blame for the unseasonably slow start to the hot-stove league. The new competitive balance tax now financially penalizes teams whose payrolls exceed $197 million, and can also lead to teams having to forfeit draft picks and lose international spending money. What’s more, for teams like the Giants who are repeat offenders, a 50 percent tax is placed on every dollar spent over the $197 million threshold.

Of the 19 49ers that are due for free agency, Matt Maiocco told John Lund and Kevin Frandsen he believes the chances of seeing Eric Reid and Carlos Hyde with San Francisco next season are slim.

There are many words that one would use to describe Barry Bonds, but rarely would anyone call him an easy at bat. Unless you’re Greg Maddux, who said, “he was the easiest guy in the world to pitch to because if it mattered you just walked him.”

While making an appearance on Murph & Mac Tuesday morning, former Giant and now broadcaster Mike Krukow shared how he’d vote for the top Giants players of the 1980s in KNBR’s Teams of the Decades poll.

NFL Network insider Ian Rapoport was pretty explicit about the likelihood of Gruden to the Raiders when he joined Murph & Mac on Tuesday morning.

While appearing on Murph & Mac Tuesday morning, Marcus Thompson had nothing, but praise for how humbly Jimmy Garoppolo conducted himself during his late-season success.

It was a big year in Fantasy Football with breakout performances, bounceback campaigns and so much more. Its Awards Night on Fantasy Football Focus, a star studded affair in which Ryan Covay & Adam Copeland hand out the prestigious awards for the 2017 season. In this final podcast of 2017, awards for “Breakout Fantasy Performer,” […]

For the last couple weeks, the Hot Stove League has been unseasonably cold. Following the trade of Giancarlo Stanton to the Yankees and the Angels’ signing of Shohei Ohtani, all of Major League Baseball appears to be in a waiting period, in the hopes that the market value of a number of high priced free agents will dwindle as we approach Spring Training.

Then only thing that’s been able to slow down 49ers rookie linebacker Reuben Foster this season is himself. Already looking like one of the best LBs in the league, Foster missed six games, and had to come out of nearly every game he played in, with various injuries this season. Many, including his defensive coordinator Robert Salah, have pointed to Foster’s tackling technique as one of the factors, and said earlier this week that the linebacker will have to learn to run through players, as opposed to launching his body at them, to protect himself in the future.

Steve Kerr’s decision to start a small lineup with Draymond Green at center in Game 4 of the 2015 NBA Finals changed the course of the series, and gave Golden State a “death lineup” that would terrorize the rest of the league during the 2015-16 season. Following the departure of Harrison Barnes, the Warriors trotted out a modified version with Kevin Durant — dubbed the Hamptons 5 — in 2016-17, giving them an even more dynamic unit that when clicking, was nearly impossible to guard.