Mark Connor
Mark Connor
Mark Peter Connoris a former pitching coach for the Baltimore Orioles and Texas Rangers. Before his coaching career, he was a minor league pitcher from 1971 through 1972 who batted and threw right-handed...
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I let him throw some breaking balls today for the first time. He threw about eight breaking balls, not max effort, but getting over the top of them with no problem, so we'll continue along those lines.
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I thought he was pretty good. Coming out of spring training, he turned the dial up with his intensity, with his stuff. He made a couple of bad pitches, obviously, but I thought he could have been out of that fifth inning and it's 2-0 ... a couple of balls hit hard and that's about it.
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In a perfect world, I'd like to start him out in a Minor League game and by the end of the spring get him some 'A' games to get his adrenaline popping a little bit.
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The ball was moving good today. He was throwing it over the plate. If he does that, he'll get people out. There's progress each time out.
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On a very basic level, that's kind of what it comes down to,
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It was a good game. They beat us fair and square.
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I want him to focus on making one pitch at a time. Sometimes it looks like he's trying to make 10 pitches and pressing to a certain degree, trying to make the perfect pitch. It's hard to do this with a lot of tension, it's hard to do anything with a lot of tension. He's pressing because he expects a lot out of himself.
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These appointments reflect our continued progress and our intention to bring forward other large mixed use schemes across the North West.
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This is a piece where I thought that I really wanted to relinquish that first violin spot and have a really big-name violinist come in to help lead this quartet.
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I don't even want to start to go down that road.
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But we had given Kim a lot of money and he was dealing at the time.
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Right now he's getting ahead of hitters and throwing three pitches for strikes. That's what a starting pitcher needs to do.
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No, I'm not concerned about the home runs. We just wanted him to get in his 18 pitches and come out healthy. No concerns at all. He was fine. Besides, the one home run was just a pop-up that got caught in the wind.
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I told the coaches, hands off until everybody throws at least one or two times. Let them relax instead of trying to make suggestions to guys we don't know yet. They get evaluated in games, so we don't want them to do anything that will interfere with their preparations.