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...
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I love youth. Youth is fun to watch because you get to see them grow. ... When you see a player for the first time get a base hit in a situation that maybe he hasn't done before, that's pretty exciting.
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You go from being excited to panicking a little bit when a guy slides into him. Your emotions can get a little wavy. For me, being a baseball player, it's just exciting to watch what kids can do. When you think about it, he probably should be a junior in college.
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Sometimes people assume because we're major league baseball players and we make a lot of money, there aren't issues in your life. Sometimes there are issues you have to handle. I'm respectful of that.
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We fall asleep and the guy scores. You can't forget who's on base. I call it always thinking ahead and knowing your base runners and knowing what the run means. We learned the hard way. Again.
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He has the ability to take something you give him and use it that day. He can run. He can hit. He has power. He runs the bases well, plays good defense. He's fun to watch. Nothing he really does makes you say, 'I can't believe he made that play, or got that hit.' If you're around him long enough, you're not surprised. He has a chance to be a really special player.
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Hanley got the big base hit. It's a situation where you might bunt but I wanted to find out if he could hit to the right side to get him over. He showed me that he could and he set up the two-run inning as opposed to the one-run inning (with the base hit).
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You just can't throw the ball away. You got to take what the game will give you and you can't make spectacular plays when there's nothing there. You have to know your base runners.
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I'm sure this will be a day he will remember. And this will be a day he will move on from and learn from. He's a special kid, though. He will bounce back. I'm not too worried about Hanley.
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I'm very concerned about it. None of us know what it is like to be Pokey Reese, the issues he's had to deal with on a daily basis. I'm not upset with him. I am just worried. We all have personal things that we have to tend to. I'm just concerned that he's OK. It worries me. I just want to hear his voice that he's OK.
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In his first start, and what he's been through this spring, I didn't feel it was in his best interest to go back out there.
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I'm not a big fan of doubleheaders. I think it takes a lot out of your players. It not only hurts them that day but it hurts them down the road.
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I know that Jeffrey and Larry will do the best they can to get me the best product on the field. We're not exactly sure what the team is going to be, but I know they're going to give me a winner.
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I like his approach to the plate. It's conducive to a number two.
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I kind of got emotional watching them play. They were trying so hard. Our guys grew up a little bit tonight.