Mark Ellis
Mark Ellis
Mark William Ellisis an American former professional baseball second baseman. He played the majority of his Major League Baseballcareer for the Oakland Athletics, and also appeared for the Colorado Rockies, Los Angeles Dodgers and St. Louis Cardinals. Ellis posted a career .991 fielding percentage, the fifth-best all-time for a second baseman in MLB history at the time of his retirement...
ProfessionBaseball Player
Date of Birth6 June 1977
CityRapid City, SD
approach crunch exact help leagues stadium time worry
It's the same exact approach I've been doing all year. It's been crunch time for a while now. You go to every stadium in the big leagues and you're going to see scores. You can't help but see the scoreboard. We worry about ourselves.
coming guys last second somebody spring time ton training year
Any time somebody has a first year with a team, you have spring training but the second year coming back you're more comfortable with the guys. We didn't have a ton of turnover. We have some new guys but we pretty much have the same guys as last year.
credit deep depth management problems ready says since time win
That's always been one of the problems with our team. We haven't had a lot of depth. This is the first time since I've been here that we've actually had depth on our team. It's a credit to our management and it also says that we're ready to win. We want to win now and we want to go deep in the playoffs.
against guy seen time tough
If you don't make adjustments against Kenny, he'll keep doing the same thing to you. We've seen him enough that we should be able to make those adjustments, but sometimes it's tough the first time you see a guy each year.
either figure genius guy matter stay swinging team time worst
If I could figure this team out, I would be a genius. We're all either swinging it well at the same time or we're all not. Hopefully, we'll stay like this for a while. It doesn't matter who is pitching. You could have Cy Young out there or the worst guy in the league, it doesn't matter.
control takes
Even as a young guy, he takes control. That's his infield out there, and that's the way it should be.
Same old stuff. He makes you get yourself out.
both change guess knows
Really? Can that even happen? Wow. Obviously, that's surprising, but it's nice, it's great. I think everyone is comfortable with Macha, everyone knows what to expect. I guess (Macha and Beane) both had a change of heart.
dugout everybody gets gotten hits job saying
Everybody in the dugout was saying they shouldn't have done that. We've gotten a lot of big hits from him. When he gets up there we know he'll get the job done.
baseball fan follow frank good numbers presence
You look at Frank's numbers and he's amazing. He's already a presence around here. You couldn't be a baseball fan in the '90s and not follow Frank Thomas. He's as good as there was in the game.
definitely tough
That was tough today. But we definitely didn't give up. ... We're used to (late-season pressure). Pressure's only what you make of it. It'll be a lot of fun.
biggest downfall pop second twice
That was my biggest downfall as a hitter. I'd pop up to second at least twice a game.
caught everybody good knows team totally turned weird
I was totally caught off guard. I was very surprised. It's good. He knows everybody on team and everybody is comfortable with him. It's weird how it turned out, but I think everybody's happy. It's good to have Mach.
bat felt good head
It felt good to get the head of the bat on the ball. That whole inning was good.