John Gibbons
John Gibbons
John Michael Gibbonsis an American former professional baseball player and the current manager of the Toronto Blue Jays of Major League Baseball. Gibbons briefly played in the Major Leagues as a catcher with the New York Mets, in the mid-1980s...
ask build games good knock love played playing trying type
It doesn't get any easier, but we've played them good all year. We'd love to go in there and knock them out somehow. We couldn't ask for more for what we're trying to do here. We're trying to build something, getting used to playing these type of games for our own experience.
asked night perfect sucked
We had no choice, we had to go to them early. That would have been the perfect night for (Downs). We asked a lot out of our 'pen, but they sucked it up.
ask chance run time
Every time you run them out there, you have a chance to win. That's all you can ask for.
ask decision
They just keep making the decision more complicated. Ask me in October.
approach ask bats couple days extra face pitching spring training year
There were days in spring training when I would approach him after he got a couple of at bats and ask him if he had had enough. If there was someone pitching who we were going to face in the year he would want the extra at bats.
answer games ready
There are 10 games left, and he's not ready to go today, ... Or tomorrow. So I can't answer that yet.
hits platoon
The platoon is still on, he just hits Vazquez good.
developing near win
We think we can win when he pitches, but we're also developing him for the future. You've got to do it sometimes -- and what's the other option? The more he's out there, the better he'll be in the near future.
ahead coming expect spring throw
We kind of had (Janssen) ahead coming out of spring training. Experience-wise they're all pretty similar. You know (Janssen) is going to come up and throw strikes, you expect him too anyway. It's his opportunity.
ahead coming others spring
We kind of had him ahead of the others coming out of spring training.
guys
You guys are pretty much right on it. But things could change.
balls benefit guys hard hit
We hit some balls hard right at guys today. That's baseball, we also benefit from that, too.
against beat brains built cause compete division expected gate good key optimism slow team teams trying year
We expected to have a better team than we've had here in a while. The key is to play to good against the teams you're going to compete with all year because there's been optimism built up, expectations and you want to keep that going. You don't want to come out of the gate slow and let the teams you're trying to overtake in your division beat your brains in cause then everybody's like where's the progress?
breathing runs
We scored some runs to give him a little breathing room. He pitched good. He got out of some big jams.