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
number roles
There are a number of roles he could fill. We need to see how he handles them.
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Numbers speaking, he made one error the whole time he was at shortstop, which speaks volumes. He handled himself remarkably well. He showed major-league poise.
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I think by far and away he was way ahead of the pack at the time he went down. But the numbers he has now, they still spell out pretty good in the big scheme of things if you want to dissect numbers and break them down. Everybody else had an opportunity of three months to really put some distance between themselves and him and elevate themselves, but it didn't happen.
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He's kind of playing behind, catching up, as far as seeing pitches. He saw a number of pitches today.
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His strikeouts are a little alarming for his number of at-bats,
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Winning a season series is something we didn't talk about much after the first half. You look at the numbers and see where you are and think maybe we can steal a game or two from them. . . . Obviously, we've been able to do a little more than that.
bubble good gum guys middle numbers
Those guys (the middle relief) have some good numbers on the back of their bubble gum cards.
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We probably didn't get the number of runs we should have been able to get. We left a lot of people on base.
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I've had a number of people come up to me this spring, unsolicited, and tell me that he's the best defensive catcher in the National League.
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There are going to be opportunities in different roles because we don't want to pitch anyone more than three days in a row.
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When you have a reliever that's a power guy that can strike people out (80 in 67 innings pitched), he's never out of the inning. As wild as some of these innings have gotten with him, he's been able to put them away.
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We love what Ojeda does defensively. We'll see if we can get him tightened up to add a little more offense.
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There comes certain situations where I think a manager has an opportunity to make a statement to his team. You don't want to miss them. I might have missed one with (Cory) Sullivan earlier in the season.
fifth starter
There has really not been any separation. We don't have a fifth starter right now.