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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.
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The Gold Glove left side of the Giants infield is back healthy and ready for a productive season. After injuries derailed SS Brandon Crawford and 3B Evan Longoria 
in 2018, they are poised to produce at previous career levels both at the plate and in the field.
“The biggest thing was swinging at good pitches…When you’re going through a little bit of a dry spell you start getting a little more anxious and you’re swinging at pitches that you that you don’t necessarily want to be swinging at and getting yourself out because of it.”
It is a tough ballpark to leave the yard and it’s just an overall more difficult ballpark to hit in with the weather. I think it’s more about trying to grind through at bats here and hit line drives. It took me probably three quarters of the year to get into that mind set…I’m positive that I’ll be more comfortable stepping into the box in game one this year than I was last year and I think that will translate into some better production.”
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.
Giants General Manager Bobby Evans joins us to talk about the changes the club made during the off season and what to expect in spring training.