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...
believe pitchers veteran
Believe it or not, you get some of those veteran pitchers and they can get in some jams and come up with a pitch here or there.
ahead good hitters pitchers
The good pitchers were ahead of the hitters today.
extra gave offence pitchers took
We gave them some extra outs and it took our offence a while to get going. But for the most part our pitchers were around the plate.
heck pitcher
He's going to be a heck of a pitcher some day,
becoming location pitchers
He's becoming one of the better pitchers in this league. His location is better than it used to be. He's going to be a big winner.
ball fly pitcher today
He is a fly ball pitcher - always has been, always will be - and when you get a windy day like today he is going to give up some homers.
bit bounce location pitcher struggling
He's struggling out of the gate, he's a better pitcher than that, he'll bounce back. His location is a little bit off.
offence
We've been swinging. We like the way our offence is built.
bats offense swinging
We've been swinging the bats pretty well. I really like how our offense is built.
break facing
We just want to break it up for them a little bit. Get them out there facing some competition. It revs things up a little bit.
months
We were raving about him two months ago.
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.