Dusty Baker
Dusty Baker
Johnnie B. "Dusty" Baker, Jr.is an American Major League Baseball manager and former player. He is currently the manager for the Washington Nationals. He enjoyed a 19-year career as a hard-hitting outfielder, primarily with the Atlanta Braves and Los Angeles Dodgers. He helped the Dodgers to pennants in 1977 and 1978 and to the championship in 1981. He then enjoyed a 20-year career as a manager with the San Francisco Giants, Chicago Cubs, Cincinnati Reds, and now Washington Nationals. He...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth15 June 1949
CityRiverside, CA
CountryUnited States of America
Boy, that was a great comeback victory especially after we kind of gave it to them in the (sixth) inning with those two runs.
Besides, ... I knew his family had come down to see him, and I wanted to get him in the game.
Be more specific of who you are talking about. Yeah, I talked to Walk. We got it straight.
Big Z had trouble feeling the ball. He couldn't feel it in his fingers. We were hoping to get five innings out of Z and then go to the bullpen.
Big weekend for Sean, Jerome and Glendon. We have to get some guys going and preserve our bullpen. The better our starters can be, the better for all of us.
The throw wasn't high enough to do that. But we want our guys to be aggressive on the bases. He knows he made a mistake on that one.
The things I want to see out of him is baseball experience and work on fundamental instinctive stuff -- running the bases, hitting the cutoff man, knowing when to run. I've heard that when he gets thrown out, he stops running. When you get thrown out, you need to be more daring.
I've always said it's harder to get a good leadoff man than anything,
I've always been a big believer that the general manager, who is my boss, he should be signed before me. That's how it impacts me. One down and maybe one to go. Or I should say, hopefully one to go.
I've always been told, 'You start the year hurt, it makes for a long year.
Sometimes when you're 40 years old, it taps you on the shoulder and it's time to get out.
Sometimes change is good, ... Sometimes change is good for everybody involved.
Sometimes he has great command of the strike zone, and the next time ... It's a matter of being more consistent. He is throwing the ball good.
Sometimes he gets overly creative. When you're young, you're going to try stuff.