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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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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I think they all know the expectations. The last few years that I've been here, you came in just hoping you would improve on the previous year. ... This year, we made some key additions, and you add that to what we did last year, and there's some optimism.
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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?
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He kept them off-balance, that was the key for him. He competes, man, he competes. He wants to prove something.
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The key is we're really swinging the bats well. We have been since Day 1.
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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.
difference offence start
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.
difference offense swinging
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.
filled good moving needs
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.
good offence shape
We're in good shape because our offence has been very good at this point.