Joe Girardi
Joe Girardi
Joseph Elliott Girardiis an American professional baseball manager for the New York Yankees. Formerly a catcher, Girardi played for the Chicago Cubs, the Colorado Rockies, the Yankees and the St. Louis Cardinals. In 2006, he managed the Florida Marlins and was named the National League Manager of the Year...
again close excited great playoffs
They were very close to getting into the playoffs again this year, ... The opportunities here are great. I'm excited to be here. They have so many great young players, and they have a lot more coming.
confidence mean playing
It's important for them to get confidence playing at this level. And when I say playing at this level, I mean by winning.
means
It's amazing. But that just means that they are young. It doesn't mean that they can't play.
amazing
It's amazing to me. They know 25 handshakes, but they can't get the signs.
amazing help pick team
It's amazing. They can do some amazing things. It would help if we could pick a team that way.
bad bit happier looked nervous saw
It looked bad at first. I was real nervous. I think the whole organization got real nervous when we saw that. But I think we were all a little bit happier when he got up.
guys innings less
It kind of dumps one of the guys out of the rotation, in a sense. There'll just be some less innings for some guys now, because he's got to get his innings in.
ball bit breaking easy pitcher point score seemed
It seemed like the left-handed breaking ball was a little bit more of a strikeout pitcher than the right-handed breaking ball. The point I made is that it's not easy to score runs.
game guys played process wins worry
It was important that our guys played the game right, and that's what they did. Wins are a byproduct of doing things right. I don't worry about wins, I worry about the process. And the process was pretty good.
continue work
It's a work in progress. It's slow, and we'll continue to try to make him better.
crazy drew supposed
It's a crazy game. We drew it up. It was supposed to work, and it didn't work. That's baseball.
competition country hurt spirit wants whatever
It's about the competition and the spirit of the games. Every country wants to win, so whatever they feel is necessary, as long as they don't hurt my guy, they can do what they want.
great happens missing pitches staying struggled zone
It's about staying down in the zone and making your pitches and (Vargas) struggled with that. He was missing location. That's going to happen. It happens to great pitchers. It happens to all pitchers.
good names
It's a good thing they have names on their uniforms. It's going to be one big competition.