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...
chance mean talk until
Now we feel we have a chance to do it. But you can talk all you want, until you do it, it doesn't mean a whole lot.
almost believe die establish natural rookie starting sure time until whatever year
It's kind of a natural progression. The guy's got the stuff. He's starting to believe in himself, too. The first time up -- rookie year or whatever -- until you establish yourself, you're never sure if you belong. You feel like you almost live and die with every outing.
finish good hang until
We want to hang in there and see what develops. We want to finish well and say we had a good year. You play until you're eliminated.
change couple course few guys looking starts until
We like a couple guys down there in Triple-A that can come up and do that job. We're not looking at it as a one-time deal. Of course if the guy comes up and struggles, we may change that. But we want the guy to make a few starts until A.J. is ready.
guy might pitch point sees until
There might come a point where he has to pitch with it, I don't know. He'll go see the guy who did the surgery. Hopefully, he'll get some reassurance from him. Until he sees him we won't know.
coming couple days few ground later move next taking until week
He's going to do a couple of things here today, move around a bit, but it won't be until later next week that he'll be taking ground balls. He's still a few days away from coming back.
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.
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.