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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You have to understand is there is no one behind you. There is no one who can come in and save your rear end if you get into a jam. That's the mentality you have to learn quick. The other thing is you have to learn to forget it quick. You can't think about it a couple of days. Whether you saved it or didn't save it, that day is over. You have to move on to the next day.
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.
carry innings whether
We're going to have innings for all our starters, whether we carry 11 or 12 pitchers.
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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.
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.
best bring close fans game lose sure
We are going to lose some close games, but fans have to be sure that we'll bring our best game every night.
dream following guys test
The only way we're going to find out if these guys can play is to test them. These guys are all following a dream and want a chance.
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The only way that as a manager or as a player that we can change that is for our club to play better and for people to enjoy watching our club. My job is to get our club to win, whether there's one fan in the stands or 60,000. People like winners.
We really jumped on Pettitte. Ramirez started us out, really got us going.
capable days exciting few last seen
We've seen the last few days what he's capable of. That's exciting stuff.