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...
against beat beginning good perennial teams top
It's the beginning of the year, but your perennial top teams in baseball, if you ever want to get where they're at, you have to beat them. We've got to play good against them.
chance locked perennial slow starter tells until worked
He's so locked in, but he's worked at it. He was a perennial slow starter until this year. All that tells me is he has a chance to have a big year.
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.
hopefully miles per throwing
He's going to be really excited, probably throwing 100. Hopefully it's 100 strikes. He'll probably be throwing 100 miles per hour.
expecting hope period
All we can do is hope he's not out a long period of time. It's unfortunate because we're expecting a lot out of him this year.
games guess guys night number sure using
I'm sure there's been some guys who have been using it for a number of years. Like anything else, some do, some don't. I guess we have see when there's day games after night games.
four knew slug tough
I knew it was going to be a tough day when they scored those four in the first. When you come in this place, you know you're going to slug it out with them.
bothering
It's still nagging, still bothering him. It's not 100 percent. If he's got to go out there, he can go out there.
balls best taking work
The best work you can get is taking balls off the bat, over and over and over again.
arm extra far starters week
That first week of the season, without having an off-day, you never know how far the starters are going to go. So we may need that extra arm down there.
might
That hurts. That might have put us back into that thing.
ask decision
They just keep making the decision more complicated. Ask me in October.
confident runs score solid top
They know we can score some runs so we're not out of games. They're confident that we have some offence. We're solid top to bottom.
focus gets innings start
It was his first start of the year, and there is a lot of focus on him. Once he gets the innings that he needs, he will be all right for us.