Jeff Conine
Jeff Conine
Jeffrey Guy Conineis a former Major League Baseball player who played 17 seasons with six teams primarily as an outfielder. An inaugural member of the Florida Marlins who was with the franchise for both of its World Series titles, he earned the title Mr. Marlin for his significant history with the club, and his ties to South Florida...
ProfessionBaseball Player
Date of Birth27 June 1966
happened hug
It happened as we were going out on the field. Give him a hug and... got to go play now.
baseball fresh good ideas style
I think someone young with fresh ideas and a different style of baseball will be good for the team. Hopefully, it will be a good fit.
box coaching diamond line perfect represents shuttle space stay track
He was coaching us through it, ... It's pretty simple. You've got a diamond that represents your line of site. That's the perfect track you want to be on. There's a box, and you want to put your box over the diamond and keep it there. As you're maneuvering the space shuttle you want to stay on that diamond.
baseball emotional tough
He got very emotional when he told us, like your granddad is going away and you're not going to see him anymore. It's tough for him. Baseball is his life.
mistakes mph pinpoint throwing
He doesn't give you many mistakes to hit. It was just command. He was not throwing 95 mph at you. It was just pinpoint control.
almost hit mistakes surprises
He doesn't give you many mistakes to hit and when he does it almost surprises you that he makes a mistake.
miss mistakes
He made some mistakes. And, fortunately for us, we didn't miss them.
bad hear umpires
We can hear him ragging on the umpires when there's a bad call.
dugout giving hitting instead maybe
We're in the dugout hitting instead of maybe giving up another run,
close fun playing race
We're playing terrible. It's disheartening. You're close to being in a race and playing terrible. It's not very fun.
field hard normal
That field is hard as a rock, and it's not the normal field that we play on,
either good lost people
Sobering, but, in a way, uplifting. The people I encountered were in pretty good spirits. They either lost everything or don't know what they're going back to.
good
That's as good as you're going to see, ... other than Mariano Rivera.
cause field problems socialize
Around the field he was all business. He didn't really socialize or go out with us that often, but he didn't cause problems around the clubhouse, either.