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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, it is the third edition of the emergency podcast.

First of all, shout out to all the people now who, whenever something happens, their first

response is, when's the emergency pod going to be?

So this is our franchise now.

Alex here, Ahmed Farid, we both have fresh haircuts.

We're ready for spring training.

We didn't look enough alike already, and so now we both have the same hair.

Neither one of us is shavened too. So if people saw us sitting here right now, it would be very confusing. I don't know who I am. This is the Austin Jackson

emergency podcast. Not quite Longoria or a concussion, but still a nice piece and now a very

interesting piece because, you know, last night we see the deal come across john hayman reported at first you go that makes

perfect sense a center fielder he fits under the tax um it's not dyson gerard dyson it's not

cane but it's a nice piece certainly you know the defensive metrics on him are are not very good

but when you look at where they came from with Dinarzpan,

and really, I go back before that, Angel Pagan, like you go, okay, this is at least somebody

who can throw out there is serviceable.

And then today we talk to Brian Sabian, Bobby Evans, Bruce Bochee, did a conference call,

which I found fascinating because Bruce Bochy was talking about Austin Jackson, like he's

his center fielder.

Brian Sabian, and I'll read the quote here, he said, did we get him to be our everyday center fielder?

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