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
cannot guy happy months six
This guy was an all-star six months ago. I cannot tell you how happy I am about that.
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I think there's no question we got the right guy for the situation. I've been impressed. I've had good (coaches). I've been lucky throughout my managerial career with that kind of stuff. He's very good at what he does. He came highly recommended by some very bright baseball people. He's quickly become a friend, a nice buffer between me and the pitchers, a good guy to hang out with.
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If it was a young guy pitching, we would have just put him on.
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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.
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Barry Bonds was like Joe Namath or Muhammad Ali. He could make a statement and go out and back it up. Not a lot of guys can do that. In fact, managers usually cringe when guys make statements about what they're going to do. In Barry's case, I liked it. I think he did it on purpose to motivate himself. In a lot of ways, it's easy for Barry. I think he needs a little controversy around him.
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I've always been a big believer that it's just as important to learn to handle success as it is failure.
See, that's the thing that pisses me off.
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You get in a catch-22. A club like ours that needs to get re-established -- we have to win every one we have a shot to win. But I'm not going to do that at the expense of hurting our pitchers, because in the long run it will blow up in our face.
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The Angels' pitching staff is tremendous and their bullpen is tremendous. I don't think most people are going to wear this pitching staff out. I mean, Shields hasn't given up a hit to a left-handed hitter all year. So they've got all the ingredients. That's why they go to the post-season.
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I don't care about personal success. It's all about winning. When you have a chance to take three of four from the Indians, you've got to do it.
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Mind-boggling. Just enjoy it. It's not going to continue forever.
players
Makes a big difference. Players always make the difference.
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We got good starting pitching again. There's no such thing as momentum in baseball -- you are only as good as your next pitcher.
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It's certainly better to see what we're seeing than getting shut out.