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...
basis came plenty returned three visitors weekly
Plenty of visitors not only came to see them on their first day out, but they've returned on a weekly or monthly basis to visit the three cubs.
maybe ready week
Maybe by the end of the week he'll be ready to go.
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.
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.
bit days guys pushing regular sure week
We make sure we're not pushing guys too fast, too early. And then, as we get about a week or 10 days away (from the regular season), we'll push it a little bit harder.
couple pick ready sure understand weeks
If I understand correctly, it'll be a couple weeks before they even want him to pick up a ball. That's going to set him back there. We'll make sure he's ready to go.
almost came sharp threw weeks
He came back and threw strong. He wasn't as sharp as he usually is, but he had almost two weeks off. He's fine. He's healthy.
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.