Lyle Overbay
Lyle Overbay
Lyle Stefan Overbayis an American former professional baseball first baseman. He played in Major League Baseballfor the Arizona Diamondbacks, Toronto Blue Jays, Pittsburgh Pirates, Atlanta Braves, New York Yankees and Milwaukee Brewers...
ProfessionBaseball Player
Date of Birth28 January 1977
CityCentralia, WA
balls middle
Location. He's down, he's away, he's in. His balls go away from the middle of the plate.
ball both college last lets year
I went to that in '99, my last year of college (U of Nevada/Reno). It lets me see the ball better ... lets me see it with both eyes.
matter protecting vernon
I'm going to play my game, it's just a matter of if they want me getting on for Troy or Vernon or if they want me protecting them. Whichever one it is, it doesn't matter to me.
athletes cover far gets good pitchers
So far it's going good. I'm kind of getting used to the pitchers getting over (to cover first base), who gets over good and who doesn't and what kind of athletes they are.
compete matters team
That's expected, they've always been up top. That's fine. It matters where we finish. That's all that matters. We've got a team that can compete with them and do that. It's just a matter of going out and doing it.
concern goes guy overcome
That's always a concern when a guy like him goes down. We're going to have to overcome some things.
interested
It will be interesting, ... I'm kind of interested to see what transpires.
against beat expect guys high ourselves
You get those guys with the high ERAs and you expect to go out there and beat up on them. You try to do too much. I think more times than not we get ourselves out against guys like that.
bad cage field habits hitting last late pitching season since trying
I've been hitting in a cage since December, but we'll see once I get out in the field and see some live pitching (on) how I'm doing. I got into some bad habits late last season so I was just trying to get back to where I was.
ahead happen knowing planned situations throwing
You never know what's going to happen ahead of you. You're kind of just throwing out things and situations knowing what you're going to do so when you get up there you can just go ahead and do it, you've planned it out.
biggest doubles drive driving hitter lots matter pride runs
Absolutely. I've always wanted to be a .300 hitter with lots of doubles and drive in runs. The biggest thing is driving in runs and it doesn't matter how you're driving in runs as long as you are. I just take pride in that.
blue great time
It's a great time to be a Blue Jay.
bad bit bunt couple happier lose manager moved runners sleep tried trying
It makes the manager a little bit happier and you don't lose sleep over that, ... I tried to bunt a couple of bad balls. Even if I had moved the runners over, that's a success. That's what I was trying to do.
behind bunt depends draw drive feeling good guys hack lee move runner situation took
I took it upon myself to bunt because Carlos Lee is behind me and Geoff Jenkins, he's already 4-for-4, that's going to put them in a situation to drive those guys in and I wasn't having a very good day. That's one of those things where it just depends what day it is, if I'm feeling good than I'm going to hack away, sometimes if I'm not, I'll try to draw a walk, try to move that runner up.