Joe Maddon
Joe Maddon
Joseph John "Joe" Maddonis an American professional baseball player, coach, and manager who currently manages the Chicago Cubs of Major League Baseball. Maddon began his coaching career in MLB with the California Angels in 1993 and served under managers Buck Rodgers, Marcel Lachemann, John McNamara, Terry Collins, and Mike Scioscia. He served two stints as interim manager during this time. He managed the Tampa Bay Rays from 2006 through 2014, winning the 2008 American League pennant. After opting out of...
continue feeling good taking
I said you're feeling pretty good because you've been taking your time. Continue to take your time.
continue feeling felt good leave taking
He felt really good, because he was taking his time. So I told him to continue taking your time. I think he's going to leave here (Friday) feeling pretty good about himself.
feeling good leave looked today
He looked nice. I think he's going to leave today feeling pretty good about himself.
playing
We're not going to back off just because we're playing games.
couple days
We need him where he is for a couple of days and then we'll put him back.
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Everyone keeps talking about how we have no power, but athleticism. There's great skill on this team offensively, but we have some power there. This group can be a well-balanced team. We have some fascinating players.
everybody issue
Everybody is so different. So the issue is where they all get to know one another.
bad bat effort hard seeing swinging takes
It's just a bad spot. Swinging the bat takes a lot of effort there. I know he's working hard and seeing some progress, but we just have to be patient.
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It must have been from too many video games growing up.
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You have to look for heavy patterns. You just don't do it. Once you see the heavy patterns you go with it. When a guy hits a single to left when he normally hits a ball 13 rows up, I'll take the single to left.
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You have to get good pitching to beat the Red Sox, period. They win a lot of close games. We've got to beat them at their own game sometimes also. When you have pitching like they do, you can't expect to come in here and go toe-to-toe with them and beat them 9-8 all the time. You're just not going to do it.
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We just want to avoid the same kind of early rush back like we did the first time. He's going to tell you it's great. He's going to tell you he wants to play, and that's all good -- it's great to hear that. But we don't want to have him have another setback.
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There's some competition out there, absolutely. We've got to see how it all shakes down toward the end, and I'm not prepared to make any kind of overt statements right now. But there's competition there.
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It's not how we've written it up in spring training, but the show must go on. The other people, the backup people, have to step up and get it done, and they will. It's just a difficult moment right now. That's all, but nobody's quitting.