Jim Leyland
Jim Leyland
James Richard "Jim" Leylandis a retired Major League Baseball manager. He currently serves as a special assistant to the Detroit Tigers and is the manager of the United States national baseball team...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAthlete
Date of Birth15 December 1944
CountryUnited States of America
biggest field honest uses
I think for a young hitter, he uses the whole field as well as any young hitter. I think that's probably the biggest thing, to be honest with you.
brings deal games kenny rogers team tremendous
Kenny Rogers made the All-Star team this year. He's 50-some games over .500 lifetime. He brings a lot to this party. I think we got a tremendous deal here.
guy
If it was a young guy pitching, we would have just put him on.
cookies guys hit home pop
I just didn't like the way we went about our business. You get some cookies and guys try to hit home runs, and they pop the (expletive) thing up all day long.
job
I have no comment. I know the job is open, but I don't know anything.
decision few gruesome hard last might next night park playing stretch
The need to get away from it. They're playing too many innings. We've got a gruesome stretch here the next few days. I thought long and hard about it when I went back to the park last night ... I just made a decision that this might make sense.
attention page pay turned
I don't pay attention to that stuff. We've turned the page on all of the things from the past.
good
I don't know if they will Wednesday, but that was a good feeling.
against ask game hit sums
He pitched great. We only got one hit against him. That pretty much sums it up. But we were into it the whole game and competed out butts off. That's all you can ask for, so I have no complaints.
mode
He's more of the show mode than the tell mode.
glad mad
I'm glad it happened. If I don't get mad when I should be mad, then I should be home.
dinner extremely fabulous five met money played president states united white
I met five presidents. I had dinner with a president of the United States in the White House. I played golf with a president of the United States. I made money. I mean, when I look at it, I had a unbelievably fabulous career. And I'm extremely grateful.
team years errors
I had 11 years of managerial experience and four years of coaching before I managed a big-league team. To me, it was important, because I learned a lot through trial and error. And it's tough to have to go through trial and error when you're a big-league manager.
next-day next momentum
Momentum is your next day's pitcher.