Frank Robinson
Frank Robinson
Frank Robinsonis an American former Major League Baseballoutfielder and manager. He played for five teams from 1956 to 1976, and became the only player to win league MVP honors in both the National and American Leagues. He won the Triple Crown, was a member of two teams that won the World Series, and amassed the fourth-most career home runs at the time of his retirement. Robinson was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1982...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBaseball Player
Date of Birth31 August 1935
CityBeaumont, TX
CountryUnited States of America
It was an explosion. He had to top me, you know?
It was an excellent game. He stayed in the strike zone tonight and he mixed up his pitches. He kept the hitters off balance. You have scouting reports and watch video, but until you hit against a pitcher, you don't have the feel for what he does or the speed of his ball.
Ready or not, here it comes. It's not going to wait for us.
Ramon has to trust his stuff, locate and not fall in love with the fastball.
People probably think I'm joking that I'm surprised,
I would have liked for him to be a little better out there, a little sharper, and gotten the hitters out a little easier. But things weren't there.
If they can get through their normal-type games, going deep into the game, we'll be able to handle the weekend with the people we have right here.
If we can do that more often, we're going to win our share of games.
If they were still here, they wouldn't have done the job. But to lose the guys to replace them, that hurts.
I don't get the same feel. I don't get the same electricity, the same energy about the situation now that I did at the beginning of the year. That is missing out of the clubhouse.
I'd like to see them play sharper, more alert, and for the defense to play good, clean baseball.
Mechanically, he looked OK out there on the mound. All in all it was a good outing.
My game plan is to sit down and talk with him when he gets here, and we'll make a decision which way to go.
Of course it matters, ... I'm going to put a kid at a position he hasn't played when I have other people, other options? I wouldn't do it to him, number one.