Clint Hurdle
Clint Hurdle
Clinton Merrick Hurdleis an American former professional baseball outfielder and current manager of the Pittsburgh Pirates of Major League Baseball. Hurdle played in MLB for the Kansas City Royals, Cincinnati Reds, New York Mets, and St. Louis Cardinals, and has also managed for the Colorado Rockies...
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth30 July 1957
CityBig Rapids, MI
gets hurt
He's never going to hurt the lineup when he gets back in.
best next pitches starts step three traffic
He's not making his best pitches in traffic in his three starts so far. That's the next step for him.
confident happen happy learn
He's not happy about it. He'll learn from it. It won't happen again; I'm confident of that.
bringing interest invited starting
He's not going to be invited back to be a part of the starting rotation. We have interest in bringing him back, but it's only in the bullpen.
history
He's got a history of having done it, so we can't say we're surprised.
ability confidence game needed outfield
He showed us what we needed to see to have confidence in his ability to put him in the game at any time, at any place in the outfield or as part of the lineup.
ball black good maybe next playing skills winter
He's got skills, but I told him they weren't playing out. And if the skills he has don't play out here, he would have to play Triple-A next year. It's very black and white. And maybe the idea of winter ball spurred him to have a good September.
earned looking point
I don't need to point him out, they come in looking at him. He has earned their respect.
finished sure
I'm not sure if Holliday finished that play up strong.
laboratory premise somebody sure swing time
I'm not sure how much we're going to let him swing the bat. He can be somebody else's laboratory experiment. I've had my time with it. ... I'm working on the premise that he can still hit.
time work
I'm going to give him some time to work out of it.
butterfly cocoon cut free help man picked reading saw thinking trying understand
I really didn't understand while I was reading it, but it told a story of a man who saw a butterfly trying to come out of a cocoon, and he picked it up and cut the cocoon away from the butterfly, thinking he was going to help free it,
best catcher defensive watch
If you watch the game, you know why. He's the best defensive catcher we have had here. Defensively, he is a playmaker . . .
bring environment perfect players
In a perfect world, you bring young players into an environment (like Atlanta),