Buck Showalter
Buck Showalter
William Nathaniel "Buck" Showalter IIIis an American Major League Baseballmanager for the Baltimore Orioles. He has previously served as manager of the New York Yankees, Arizona Diamondbacks, and Texas Rangers. He is also formerly a professional baseball player and a television analyst for ESPN...
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth23 May 1956
CityDe Funiak Springs, FL
people struggle
We struggled. A lot of people struggle in Boston.
career continued feels happy kevin missed pitches
We're real happy with Kevin this spring. He's healthy, feels good, all his pitches are there, he hasn't missed a beat. We like what he's done in his career and he has continued on that path.
best coming easy facility four games gets input key love people playing three tweak
With these new facilities, the key is how they look after three or four years. This place gets better every year. With their input and ours, we tweak things every year. It makes it easy to get 'B' games. People love coming here and playing 'B' games because we have the best 'B' game facility in baseball.
sit
We'll sit down each day and see how he feels.
couple injuries
Unfortunately, you're a couple of injuries away from that not happening.
ball feels good until
We are day to day, ... until he feels good with a ball in his hand.
mind until wednesday
We want to keep in mind that up until Wednesday he had pitched pretty well. We'd like to see him right the ship.
feels gotten looks needs tomorrow
We'll see how he feels tomorrow and see if he needs more tests. It looks like we may have gotten lucky.
case face fluid free good knows likes people since smile
Padilla has been very fluid with his motion, free and easy. He's had a pretty good face since he's been here. He knows some people in the organization and he likes the place and the weather. He has had a smile on his face, which is not always the case with him.
bats equal needed swung today
They swung the bats well. We did too, but we needed a lot more (runs) than we had today to equal them.
defense guy hits overlook players special turns
A lot of people, they overlook the defense the more a guy hits. Those all-around players like that are rare. ... He's a special defender. He turns hits into outs.
gone last self wrong
A lot of things have gone wrong in the last year, ... Some of it we've self-created.
concerned seem
They don't seem to be concerned about it that much.
good obviously seen
They had seen him before and that's what makes it even more impressive. They obviously had a good idea what he was going to try to do.