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
certain earlier manager might miss missed opportunity situations statement sullivan
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.
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He moved around pretty well. It wasn't in a game-like situation, but we tried to create some situations where he had to get off the mound and cover bases, and everything went pretty well.
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We've got options. We've created depth all winter to take care of any situations like this. It's very unfortunate. But it has happened, and we'll deal with it accordingly.
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That's just one of the toughest situations I put myself in, having to take him out and putting in a pinch-runner. It worked to my favor tonight.
cards early games guys house improvement pick season situations willing
There were games early in the season where we crumbled like a house of cards in situations like that. These guys are willing to pick one another up and that is a big improvement with this team.
anyone days pitch roles three
There are going to be opportunities in different roles because we don't want to pitch anyone more than three days in a row.
number roles
There are a number of roles he could fill. We need to see how he handles them.
gotten guy innings people power strike wild
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.
add love
We love what Ojeda does defensively. We'll see if we can get him tightened up to add a little more offense.
fifth starter
There has really not been any separation. We don't have a fifth starter right now.
heard pitcher saw
We saw a different pitcher than what we heard about.
far good gotten parts roll solid
We just haven't gotten on a roll here where we've been able to put the combinations together, as far as the good-pitched game, solid bullpen, the good hitting, the good defense. We haven't done that with much regularity at home. We've had this part or that part -- we haven't had all the parts in a roll.
fences knocking stripping
We keep knocking fences down that have been put up over the years. We're stripping the paint.
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We're not messenger boys. We want to be delivery boys. We have to play and win games.