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
It depends on the severity of his injury, how he feels upon recovery and upon rehab. I don't have any answer to that right now.
It depends on how he feels and what they say, a combination. We're just hoping it turns out to be nothing. He'll do as much as he can tolerate.
I think more success is on the horizon.
I thought he was way out of the baseline.
I'm still not concerned. If it was June 12th or something, but this is eight games. It's too early to assess Juan. I'm not worried.
Maybe. It depends on how the other guys are doing, it depends on what I need. It depends on the bottom of the order. It's not definite. I'm always open-minded to changes.
Maybe I shouldn't have cursed. I had just given him the highest compliment last week when I said he's one of the pitchers I respect most in the league, because he doesn't clown, he doesn't showboat. He just pitches.
I'm hoping we don't need him. We'll worry about Wednesday when we get there.
We need an extra bat. We are a little short, especially with the guys that are a little hurt, and big Ben has done an outstanding job of coming off the bench.
We need to establish home-field advantage and superiority.
We need his offense and we need his defense, too. We don't usually play as well with him out of the lineup.
You know it's there, but you don't really see it. Guys don't discuss it or talk about it much. It's something you have little control over. I'm sure some guys are conscious of it and aware of it, but until it happens, you can't do anything about it.
We have a support staff here I think that can make a difference.
We haven't discussed that, and they're in the playoffs, ... Who knows when they'll finish? It could be the middle of September.