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...
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I think that's common knowledge. Maybe not, but it's going to be soon. Great experience -- they love to work and everybody gets along. You'll run into some staffs where everybody doesn't see eye-to-eye and there's a little separation. With this group, everybody has a good time together and we're not afraid to disagree.
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Obviously, it's a great thing to honor your country and to get that type of experience on such a big stage, but we're a little bit selfish in wanting those guys back as soon as possible. With so many new faces in camp this year, ideally you'd like to have all of them around as much as possible to establish chemistry and continuity in your lineup. But it's a great experience for Vernon, who's getting the most playing time of anyone.
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You don't look at results in the minor leagues because I don't think I've ever seen a guy go down there and not get hit around.
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We're going to need them. There are going to be days in the year we are going to have to call on them to do the job and hold the fort so we can try to win a game. They did that today.
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We're going to give this a go. That's our plan. If somebody is really hot and we're trying to win games, it may come down to that.
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What a difference offence makes. That didn't start out too well, down 4-0. If we didn't have offence, we don't come back in that game.
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What a difference an offense makes. From day one we've been swinging the bats, and that was big. If we don't have the offense we have, we don't come back.
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We're going to make our mistakes this season, but the key will be in trying to limit those. We want to make the routine plays when we have a chance to make them.
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We're moving in the right direction. We filled some needs and now we need to go out there and see how good we are.
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We're hoping he can give us a little spark with his bat when Gregg Zaun doesn't play. He's part of the future.
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We were already down two there. If we were tied, we might have done something differently.
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We're in good shape because our offence has been very good at this point.
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We knew when we lost those two there was going to be some games like this and it was going to take its toll on our bullpen. That's just the situation we're in.
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We knew what we needed to do to improve. We targeted some guys and we were hoping to get one or two of them. You never expect to get your whole wish list and we almost did that.