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
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.
august chance dice grinding roll
We're grinding like heck, ... to get a chance to roll the dice in August and September.
add clear good hurdles pitcher
There are different hurdles a pitcher has to clear on the way to establishing himself, ... This is a good stat for him to add to his resume.
decided safe
We decided not to use him and be on the safe side.
centered found good holes loss tough tried win
We tried everything. They had two groundballs that found holes and Cabrera centered a ball. It was a good win for them and a tough loss for us.
beat figure great pitcher ran
We ran into a great pitcher today. But to get to where we need to go, we've got to figure out a way to beat those guys.
both heat pitchers starter veteran
(Rogers) pitched well. Really well. Him and (Minnesota starter Brad) Radke are both veteran pitchers and they went out there in the heat and did well.
best solid starting top
(Rogers) has had another solid year. He's going to end up in the top 10 in ERA. He has been our best starting pitcher.
fine
Rod's going to be OK, ... It was more getting over the injection than it was the swelling. He's fine today.
attack mark
Mark is going to attack anything he can to get better.
improved led mark
Mark has improved a lot more than we were led to expect.
grand happy last slam
I was happy with the outing, as I was with his last one. We had opportunities to make the grand slam not matter.
chris second wind
I think Chris got his second wind after we put the five-spot up there,
creates good hoped options rod sandy shape solid
I think we're in pretty good shape catching-wise in the organization. Sandy has done as good or better than we could have hoped for. Rod is having a solid year. It creates a lot of good options for us.