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

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

Hey, everybody, the Giants have a bunch of new players over the last week and brought one of them in today for the podcast. Ray Black, somebody that I think we've all been waiting a long time to see anybody who saw them in the minors, anybody who saw them in spring training, knows just how rare it is for anybody to have a fastball like that. And especially for the Giants. I mean, this is not a team

or a bullpen that usually has guys in the upper 90s. And here we have Ray who's hit 104 in the past.

He regularly hits 100. He's been sitting 98-99 since he came up the first couple appearances.

So I think it's been an exciting debut form. Certainly the second one went much better

than the first one and showed us a little bit of what is capable of. And today we got into all of that.

I talked to him before Wednesday's game, the series finale against the Cubs. And we kind of got

into how he got back here and where he went last year and how he figured out that he was ready to give pitching another shot.

I thought it was an interesting conversation, certainly somebody who has really, I mean,

had one of the better comebacks we've seen from a giant in a long time and somebody who

really was off the radar and all of a sudden with a couple good months in the minors that's got

himself up here and I think has a chance to get a pretty big role in that bullpen because there's not a whole lot of right-handed depth.

And a lot of those guys in that bullpen need a lot of time off.

So it's an exciting time for Ray, and we talked about all of that.

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