Jim Tracy
Jim Tracy
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I started to fall in love with the game of baseball when my dad gave me my first set of baseball cards, ... I kept the ones I recognized. The guys I didn't were the ones I put in the spokes of my bicycle with clothes pins.
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There's no closer in baseball that's perfect, though we lost one (Gagne) who's as close to being one as there is. Brazoban has done a great job.
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That was his game to determine. It was his baseball game at that point. You have to give him the opportunity to finish it.
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He's a great athlete and a heck of a baseball player. You've got to like his future.
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We have the better part of five months of baseball to play.
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I am a firm believer in the fact that a group of guys needs to understand the importance of 90 feet, that it makes the difference in a baseball game. These players will gain a strong realization of that.
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Obviously, he helped make us a good baseball team two years ago.
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The best way to approach a player with his type of ability and talent is to feel like you've developed a type of environment to allow his development to continue on its natural course. With what we have done this winter, we have put this young man in a position to where his natural progression as a Major League Baseball player has a genuine opportunity to take place without heaping any unexpected expectations on him.
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They put constant pressure on the other team, ... It's a very difficult style of baseball to compete against.
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A little thing like that can end up winning you a baseball game.
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There's a lot of baseball to be played.
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No question in my mind. You are talking about people who have great baseball minds and are tireless workers.
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I think it's very safe to say that Ryan is not a finished product defensively. I also feel that, when you look at a major-league baseball team that has 25 active members and half of that is your pitching staff, it's pretty imperative that that stuff back there behind the plate gets taken care of.
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He's been terrific. He looks to me like a very good baseball player and a very good number two hitter.