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Welcome to the Giants Insider podcast on NBCSports Bay Area.com.

Introducing your host, San Francisco Giants Insider, Alex Pavlovich.

All right, Alex here with Ahmed.

We have now taped this podcast twice, which means that we have made twice as many podcasts for this as the Giants have made significant moves in the off season.

I made some bad points in that one that will never air too, so I'm glad that that one.

I'm going to refine those points right now.

I started editing you and I said, these jokes are so bad. No, occasionally in this business, there's a bad mic. I'm a writer, so I don't

really know what to do when that happens. Just redo it. Yeah. Nothing has changed since we first

taped it because nothing has changed since our last podcast, which was two weeks ago,

the Emergency Evan Longoria podcast.

There are a couple rumors.

There's the same old Andrew McCutcheon rumor that's hanging around, which seems like nothing to change

since about early December that they would like quite a bit in return and the Giants just

trade Christian Royo and really do not want to trade one of their other top three guys. I think they would rather trade from a group starting and maybe their six or seven prospect. And so it's a holding pattern. For sure, or maybe not one of their top three guys for one year of Andrew McCutcheon. I'm sure there's a deal that's out there that they would be okay in dealing another one of their guys,

but it seems like for a one-year rental-type player, that's not what they want to do.

So, yeah, I mean, it's been slow, but it's been slow for everybody.

They have not fallen behind.

It's a crazy, they have not fallen behind.

Yeah, every option is still out there.

Yeah.

So that's not terrible, including another rumor we heard today, Carlos Gonzalez, is somebody

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