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...
carry innings whether
We're going to have innings for all our starters, whether we carry 11 or 12 pitchers.
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.
innings season setting start
We just need to get a lot of innings in for a lot of people. We'll start setting up for the season after this round.
bend figured innings learn seem
It's always one or two innings that seem to get us. You have to learn to bend a little but not break, and we haven't figured out how to do that yet.
easy gotten impress innings time
He's done nothing but impress us. Every time out, he's gotten nothing but outs. He's down in the zone. His innings have been as easy as anyone's here.
compete determines innings needs ready speed
He's not going to get the innings he needs to get. He's a starter, and he's behind. I told him, 'It's kind of a speed bump. When you had that injury, it was a speed bump. You're the one who determines when you're going to get back.' ... He's not ready enough to compete as a starter.
basically couple determine innings speed
He's not going to get the innings he needs. He's a starter, and we need to get him to feel comfortable to where he should be. What I told him is you can take it a couple of different ways. It's kind of a speed bump. You're the one who can basically determine when you can get back.
fun watching work
Watching our shortstops go to work was kind of fun to watch.
believe camp pitch
We're going to see how he does out of the bullpen. It's just kind of a different role, some flexibility for us. He has pitched very well in camp and we believe we can pitch him anywhere.
enjoyable hard meetings talk watch
What's really enjoyable to watch is how hard they play. We talk about it every day and we have meetings about how hard we're playing.
ahead asleep base call fall forget guy hard knowing learned runners thinking
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.
fall guy
We fall asleep, and the guy scores. It can't happen.
catch concern played ways
We're a ways away with him. My concern with him was he already played catch and didn't tell us.
center tough
We have to get one of our center fielders going. They are young, and it's a tough game, but we have to get them going.