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...
bring expand pitchers strike understand zone
Sometimes you have some young pitchers who get too fine. And you have to bring them back in the zone and understand that you expand the zone when you get ahead, not before you get strike one.
figure hitter holes pitchers smaller
Every hitter has holes in his swing. Some holes are smaller than others. When pitchers figure Jacobs out, he will have to make the changes.
catch great pitchers spring time training year
I think he'll play catch up most of spring training just because of the time he's missed. He's going to play catch up the whole year really ... but that's OK. A lot of great pitchers have had to do it.
coaches couple great pitching
I thought it would be great to have a couple of pitching coaches on the staff.
hurdles learn pitch slight
Those are little hurdles you have to get over. Sometimes you have to learn to pitch with a lead, even if it's a slight lead.
hook pitcher
What you do is let the other pitcher off the hook in a sense.
eyes opened pitches spring three throw
Three pitches, no fear, can throw all his pitches over at any time. He opened a lot of eyes in spring training.
aggressive focus pitching
I'd be an aggressive manager. Prepared, with a focus on pitching and defense.
knew meeting oh pitchers practice signed since toughest
Oh yeah, probably since I signed as a manager. Because I knew that would probably be the toughest meeting that I had. I had a little practice with the pitchers and catchers. Today, it was the whole squad.
harder lead learn learning pitch
There are times when you have to learn to pitch with the lead. To me learning how to pitch with the lead is harder than learning how to pitch when you're behind. That's what we need to learn how to do.
batting people pitchers pitching plenty win
Let's let the pitchers concentrate on pitching for a while and then we'll get them their at-bats. Pitchers are getting plenty of batting practice, but we can't win if they don't get people out.
catcher expose love pitchers pressure putting remember running stop weaknesses
We will look to expose the weaknesses of other clubs, ... I love putting pressure on the defense, because I remember as a catcher what it was like and what pitchers go through to try to stop the running game.
bit himself might pitch until
Until Jake establishes himself a little bit they might pitch around him more.
pitcher sliding
We will have discussions about that, especially a pitcher sliding head-first into first base.