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Hi everyone. Welcome to Giants Talk. I'm Cole Khyper here with Alex Pavlovich on the NBC Sports

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quote, wait, I think Wendy's breakfast is actually one of the good ones, right? They have like

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come on next week and just do that. The maple bacon thing. It sounds delicious. Oh yeah. And it is.

You just put out article talking about five interesting spring training

stats, and I wanted to go over them because I found this fascinating. So do you mind if I read

down each five of those stats and give you a chance to talk about them a little bit? Yeah,

let's just do the basic thing. I think the article is like 3,000 words. So just do the headlines.

Perfect. The first one off the top was Brandon Belt and Evan Longoria combined for zero defensive innings during spring training.

Yeah. And basically, I mean, I was looking at five stats that stood out to me and saying whether it's concerning, whether you know,

you buy or sell, what's going on. This one, I think, is a little bit of both. I talked about this

week, actually, for something else I'm working on, which we can talk about next week. But he's very

confident. He's very confident in the heel. He says he feels great. It's not going to be a problem once he gets back onto the active roster. He might

miss a few games at the start of the year, but he did last year, ended up his best numbers.

And I think just as a hitter, he is so confident about where he is right now in the box and

on the field that I think this is one that he made me confident not to be worried long term.

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