Joe Nathan
Joe Nathan
Joseph Michael "Joe" Nathanis an American professional baseball pitcher for the Chicago Cubs of Major League Baseball. Nathan started out his baseball career as a shortstop in high school and while at Stony Brook University, but converted to a pitcher after being drafted by the San Francisco Giants. He worked his way through the minor leagues, alternating between spots in the rotation and the bullpen. After a few years of splitting time between the majors and the minors, Nathan had...
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You almost know he's going to break out, that he's going to come up with huge hits for us. No matter how he's swinging the bat, at any moment he can put a good stroke on the ball and do what he did.
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It's going to be a tough opening month. I think most of us are just looking forward to getting the season going and looking forward to the challenge of it. Hopefully we can get off to a good start and play the best baseball right away because it's not going to be an easy stretch.
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They go hand and hand. That's one of the good things ? I'll be able to stay on the same schedule there as I would here anyway.
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I think fantasy is a good thing, it creates interest. I don't think about it much. It's not like I go out and try to perform for a fantasy team, but I think they are good to create interest and not just in baseball.
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By the end of the season, one will be entrenched as the Twins' stopper and it's a very good chance that it will be Nathan.
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It was almost worse. It's like this feeling that you just let a whole lot of people down. I know for myself, I don't want to feel that way again.
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Every time IBM sells a product that uses our technology, it damages us. That will come out at the trial,
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Every game is huge right now, especially for us. We're the ones chasing. It's almost like we have to win when they win and we have to win when they lose. It doesn't leave us too much room for error.
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We've got our staff back. We've got a better lineup. We're going to be a lot better.
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That was a huge loss. It's one of the more disappointing losses, especially for our team to battle back like that.
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I was glad to get through it and get Johan a win after the way he pitched, ... Since I've been here, that's the loudest I've heard it.
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I think J.C. is in a better spot mentally, so I think it was more along the lines of that than him trying to stir up anything with us.
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Ninety-four percent of us don't use steroids. We're trying to put that issue behind us. A small percentage of players makes everyone look bad.
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Obviously, we've got a lot of work to do. But if we lose this series, we're basically out of it. To win this series shows we're still in it and shows we've still got some fight left in us.