Jason Bay
Jason Bay
Jason Raymond Bayis a Canadian-American former professional baseball left fielder. Bay played in Major League Baseballfor the San Diego Padres, Pittsburgh Pirates, Boston Red Sox, New York Mets and Seattle Mariners...
ProfessionBaseball Player
Date of Birth20 September 1978
CityTrail, Canada
forward games innings looking nine playing spring
You go from spring training, where you're (in the lineup) here and there and you can't really simulate playing nine innings continually, to having to play 17 games in a row. I think everyone is looking forward to this day off.
excited forward good heard looking manager offense pirates run spring
No offense to Lloyd (former Pirates manager Lloyd McClendon) and his staff, but I'm looking forward to going to spring training. And there's going to be a different look, a different feel, a different way things are run and I've heard nothing but good things. So I'm just excited about the way we're going to go about things.
believe coming forward looking middle row spring stands
It's huge. Coming right out of spring training, where you get no breather, and then, boom, 17 in a row ... it's tough. In the middle of the season, it's kind of normal. At the beginning, it kind of stands out. Believe me, we're looking forward to this day.
definitely finally gets ready talking
We've been talking about it for a while. Now we're just ready to get out there and get going. You have that anticipation, it finally gets here and you definitely get excited.
forward giving looking nice
It would be a nice little accomplishment. I'm looking forward to the opportunity, but it's not one of those things you can force. It's not like they are just giving it to you.
guides slowly taken terrible
I started this neighborhood, and it's slowly been taken over. But that's OK. I'm just going to get one of those idiot's guides to Spanish. I'm terrible at it.
biggest hitting instead key kinda nice playing relax runs three
We had pitching, hitting and defense. It was nice to get all three working together. The biggest key was getting the three runs early. That let us kinda relax a little bit, instead of playing from behind.
actual days early few jump stuff week workouts
I wanted to get a little jump on things. It's not like I am here a week early or anything, but it's a few days to get the soreness and all of that stuff out before the actual workouts start.
cylinders hope jobs
There's not much we can do about that. As hitters, you just do your jobs and hope we can get all cylinders going at some point.
good pitcher step teams
We need a pitcher to step up and be a stopper. A lot of good teams have that.
best teams
Those are the two best teams in the division. We'll find out where we stand.
came everybody far feeling focused
Usually on the first day it's pretty lackadaisical and everybody is feeling their way around a little bit, but I really got the feeling that everybody was over that. Everybody came in a little more ready, a little more focused as far as getting some things done.
help last main maintain numbers protection trying year
You know what? My main thing is going to be trying to be consistent. Those numbers I put up last year and the protection we'll have this year, I think that's going to help me maintain that.
past people
Great. To see all these people here the past two days--it's just impressive.