Clint Barmes
Clint Barmes
Clint Harold Barmes is an American former professional baseball shortstop and second baseman, who played in Major League Baseballfor the Colorado Rockies, Houston Astros, Pittsburgh Pirates, and San Diego Padres...
ProfessionBaseball Player
Date of Birth6 March 1979
aggressive balls battle behind far game good laying looked looking lose might strikes taking work year
I've never walked. If I'm laying off balls, I might get some walks. But I don't go up looking for a walk. Never have. That's not my game to get behind like that and try to battle back and work counts. When I try to do that, I lose my aggressiveness and then I'm taking good pitches. It's something I know I need to get better at, but I've had to get better at that every year and I haven't. Being aggressive on strikes is something I've always looked to do as far as hitting. I feel like I've done well with that approach.
telling
The way Eli started the inning off, I'm telling you right now, that's what started us all off.
best call sure
There was a call made (by the umpires) to go over what happened, to make sure there was no confusion. There's nothing to it. Hoffman got the best of me.
guy night situation
There's not a better situation to be in. I'd want to be the guy in it every night if I could.
found happen
I found a hole. That doesn't happen very often.
hard surprise thrown
So it didn't really surprise me a lot, ... that he's thrown that hard off the mound.
mind
That's the first thing that comes to mind -- it's something I'll never forget.
gets guys hope jason soon team
It's devastating. He's the captain, the team leader. I don't know the situation, but I hope he gets back as soon as possible. The only compensation is we've got guys that can take his place. Eli (Marrero) and Jason (Smith) can play the position.
behind excited finish fully healthy moved nice ready team until wait year
It was nice to finish with the team and finish in the same year I got hurt. That way I didn't have to wait until now to get back. It's behind me. I've moved on and I'm excited about this year. I'm fully healthy and I'm ready to go.
bad ball hurry swing time trying
It's something I've done my whole life, just trying to put the ball in play. Most of the time it comes out is when I have two strikes. I get in a big hurry and swing at bad pitches.
bit good guys push
It's always good to go home. But these guys will probably be able to push me a little bit more than Dad.
bit counts expecting experience far rookies year
We're not rookies anymore, and we've got a year under our belts. Every little bit counts as far as experience goes, and hopefully, every year we get a little bit better. This year, we're expecting to play better and for better things to happen.
again exciting odds situation special top year
That's going be tough, man, I don't know. I don't know if I could ever top that. That's something that's going be, it's very special to me as an exciting moment. I don't know if I'll ever top that one. To be in that situation again would be pretty great. The odds of doing that again this year would be pretty tough.
high low possibly
I went from as high as I could possibly be to as low as you could possibly be overnight.