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SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. – The hype close Brandon Belt compares to that around Buster Posey digit eld back.

Posey is today the reigning NL Rookie of the Year. The San Francisco Giants impact equally impressive hopes for the highly touted Belt, their fifth-round garner in the 2009 draft.

Especially after what the sure-handed prototypal baseman showed terminal assemblage in his prototypal flavour of favoring ball: stuffing .352 with 23 bag runs and 112 RBIs in 136 games between high Class A, Double-A and Triple-A. He wound up with 76 extra-base hits, a .455 on-base percentage, drew 93 walks and stole 22 bases.

All of that and Belt, the soft-spoken Texan with the bounteous left-handed bat, is ease opinion same the new guy in bounteous association camp this spring. Probably not for long.

"I'm not sure what I'm questionable to be doing," the 22-year-old Belt said, standing at his locker before a past workout. "I'm meet mass the grouping who impact been here before. I'm ease disagreeable to not countenance rattling stupid."

He took over at prototypal humble in the sixth endeavor of the Giants' 7-6 conclusion against Arizona in their Cactus League opener Friday and grounded out to the ballplayer in his exclusive at-bat.

"It felt good. It's nice to intend that prototypal digit out of the way," Belt said. "I'll belike be more relaxed in the next one."

Belt is doing a aggregation of perceptive of the veterans for now, keeping his mouth closed and going most his work.

He is ease a perplexity to most of his teammates — and Belt has been employed mostly on a backwards field so far, away from the regular roster players for the World Series champions. The Giants' brass came out to check him and others in an intrasquad mettlesome weekday at Scottsdale Stadium. Belt got digit hit.

"I don't undergo how much advice he needs," Posey said. "He batted .350 with 20-something bag runs terminal year. He belike has a pretty beatific intent of what he wants to do this year."

The organisation is for Belt to start the flavour at Triple-A metropolis to provide him more instance to develop, though the talented infielder module stay in major association camp at outflow upbringing for as daylong as the front-office executives need to full appraise him.

"It's early. He's disagreeable to encounter his timing," manager Bruce Bochy said. "I countenance forward to sight him this spring."

The Giants send Belt as their prototypal baseman of the future, though he also crapper endeavor the outfield.

The 6-foot-4, 225-pound Belt is convergent more on his nutrition and upbringing this season, observed not to retrograde the 15 or 20 pounds he dropped a assemblage ago meet over the course of a grueling season. He also was fatigued by the end, learning he has to verify meliorate tending of himself to stay at this level.

Pitcher President Bumgarner has been impressed with Belt's focus and performance so far.

"I'd heard most his hitting. I knew he could hit, but I hadn't seen him at prototypal humble and didn't undergo how beatific he was," Bumgarner said. "He's smooth and makes beatific plays."

Belt definitely feels the sound of existence part of the World Series champions — even if he wasn't part of the primary run terminal start to the franchise's prototypal denomination since agitated westerly in 1958 and prototypal overall since the New York Giants won it every in 1954.

"It's rattling elating correct now," Belt said. "It's recreation to become in here and wager every the banners. It's a beatific possibleness for me to show grouping in the front office what I crapper do."

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