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The Voice of the San Jose Giants Joe Ritzo joins Inside China Basin to discuss the promotion of rookie catcher Joey Bart and chat about Logan Webb’s development, the emergence of Austin Slater as an offensive force and the Giants designating Hunter Pence for assignment. Joe also describes his MLB debut emotions from 2019 when he was called on to do four games on the radio for San Francisco.
Ritzo on Joey Bart: “He is a very special talent and that was very obvious from the first week of last season when he was with 
us in San Jose. All the different ways that he can impact a game. I love watching him hit because a lot of his power can go out to center and right. It’s power to all fields which isn’t very common for such a young hitter. He can also make an impact defensively.”
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Bart photo courtesy: SF Chronicle
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On Tuesday at Oracle Park in San Francisco the Giants opened up a 2-game Bay Bridge series with the Oakland A’s. Evan Longoria is back in the lineup these days and his health is very important with Pablo Sandoval ailing lately with a throwing elbow. Longo tells us about coming back from his foot injury and the adjustments he 
makes at Oracle Park vs playing on the road. OF Austin Slater and RHP Trevor Gott also join us. Plus, we hear from Giants manager Bruce Bochy.
Slater chatted about hitting and playing first base. Jon Miller 
discussed the Giants season and Barry Bonds’ great moments. It’s all part of the Thursday podcast before the first game of a four-game series against the Pirates.
really need to buckle down…I really do believe that we have the guys in here to win. This is a good baseball club. This is a team that knows how to win with a bunch of guys who have been around for a long time. We need to take that 
collective group effort out there on the field with us every night…Every team has a turning point, positive or negative and I don’t think we’ve reached that yet. There will definitely be a point in the next week or two where we look up and say we didn’t play well enough and we don’t have a chance anymore or the chance has become very real, we’ve put ourselves in a situation where the post-season hopes are right in front of us and that will flip the switch the other way.