Frank White
Frank White
Frank White, Jr.is an American former Major League Baseballplayer, and coach for the Kansas City Royals and their AA affiliate, the Wichita Wranglers. He is one of only three MLB players, along with Ron Washington and U L Washington, who were products of the Royals Academy. He is also a former color commentator for Royals telecasts. He currently serves as the first base coach of the Kansas City T-Bones of the American Association of Independent Professional Baseball. He was elected...
ProfessionBaseball Player
Date of Birth4 September 1950
CityGreenville, MS
If you can get ahead of them and use your breaking ball, you can maybe be OK, but they are a good mistake-hitting team. It seemed like every ball we left up in critical situations, they put good wood on it.
It's going to be good to get the game back to the way it should be. I think the guys who replaced those guys did the best job they could under the circumstances, but I think it was probably more unfair to the players to have this happen. It's always good when the game comes back to where it should be.
It's a different ball game when the season starts. It's for real, and it counts. The guys in spring training don't feel the same rush as they do during the regular season.
They've got to understand, late in the game when you can get beat, you want to get beat the other way. You don't want to get beat by a guy's power.
The thinking (in spring training was) they were going to give us a better blend of veteran guys to support the younger guys.
Right now we don't have anything working, expect for the pitching. The defense is not consistent right now and we're not getting the big hits, no two-out base hits or (sacrifice) flies that we were getting a week ago.
I don't think there's anything one person can do,
You never know what to expect when a guy comes back after missing a year. You have to be patient and work with him and hopefully he'll work with us and not push it too hard.
A lot of lawyers are going to be arguing over this. I think what we all would like to see is for the Legislature to meet and pass a comprehensive statute that addresses all these issues, and not an order that was written on an emergency basis.