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...
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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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I don't even have to see stuff like that. I stand by the cage and I watch how somebody uses their hands. And when you get a big person who uses his hands well, they normally have pretty good power. And he's a big guy and uses his hands really well.
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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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I said you're feeling pretty good because you've been taking your time. Continue to take your time.
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He just threw a lot of pitches. They will wear you out. You have to get ahead of these guys and make them swing the bats early because they will pitch count you. They are very capable of that. They have several very good hitters in that lineup.
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He got angry in a good way. He had just had enough and he responded in a manner that you'd expect a man and athlete of his caliber to respond. It was so noticeable. When he came off the mound, he had this look. It was really different. He was intense.
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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.
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He looked nice. I think he's going to leave today feeling pretty good about himself.
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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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We need him where he is for a couple of days and then we'll put him back.
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To command it at 40-something, that's not easy.
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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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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.
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It's not how it was written up this spring. The show must go on. It's a difficult moment right now. But nobody is quitting.