Hal McRae
Hal McRae
Harold Abraham McRaeis a former left fielder in Major League Baseball who played for the Cincinnati Redsand Kansas City Royals. Utilized as a designated hitter for most of his career, McRae batted and threw right-handed. He is the father of former major league outfielder Brian McRae...
ProfessionBaseball Player
Date of Birth10 July 1945
committing difficult distance gotten matter screaming
He's not in screaming distance of what he was. It's just a matter of him committing to doing it. It's not difficult to (fix). It's nothing new. It's just something he's gotten away from.
cylinders happen hitting last periods struggled year
We're not hitting on all cylinders like we were last year. But if I'm not mistaken, there were periods last year when we struggled also. I still feel we're going to be OK. I just want it to happen now, not later.
few hit league might nobody
Nobody could hit like that. Plus, the league is not going to let you hit that way. You might get a few hits, but you're not really going to hit that way.
catch chase chasing lets
Right now, Albert's chasing the game. He's got to let it come to him a little more. It will if he lets it. When you chase the game, you don't catch up to it very often.
above average biggest chases hits pitch pitchers problem small strike zone
Make them pitch into his strike zone. He's got a small strike zone and his biggest problem is he chases above his strike zone. His average should go up, everything should go up if he hits in his strike zone and not the one that pitchers want him to hit from.
albert balls base bats capable either feels gets good guy hit
Jimmy's been off and on, and we know how capable he is. He either bats before or after Albert. It's going to be important that we hit around Albert so he gets pitched to, so he feels he can take his base on balls and another guy will do it. It's going to be important for (Edmonds) to have a good week.
achieve goals talk wants
I think it's his drive. He wants to achieve a lot. He has some goals that he doesn't talk about.
bat coming guys naturally pitches swinging
If the guys around him are swinging the bat well, he's naturally going to get better pitches to hit. Now he's been overanxious because they're not coming after him. We don't have enough guys around him swinging the bat really well.
ball balls base field fly found hit hits hitting lazy left opposite stopped strong
He's getting a lot of base hits to the opposite field, which is a positive. He stopped hitting the lazy fly balls to right field. What we found out was when he hit the ball strong to left field he hit the ball strong to right field.
knew swing
He knew he had to go back out there. But he couldn't go back out there and swing at everything. He had to be patient.
bolts nuts
In a nutshell, offensively we're struggling. The nuts and bolts of what's going on - that's it. We're struggling.
jimmy leave somebody tried works
If somebody else tried to do what Jimmy does, they'd leave here in a straightjacket. He's different. What works for him probably wouldn't work for somebody else. He's so gifted, and that's probably made what he's going through worse.
bobby good hitter hundred percentage strike walk
On-base percentage is No. 1. If you strike out a hundred times, but you also walk a hundred times, you're a pretty good hitter -- like Bobby Abreu. Yeah, he'll strike out. But his on-base percentage is always over .400, which is what you want.
continued fun playing spring win winning won
It's fun to win and you play to win. Amazingly, when I went to spring training, the thought was to win it all. The thought has always been to win it all. So far, we've continued to win. We've won all year. But there was no thought of playing .500 or being competitive. The only thought was winning it all. It's fun.