Michael Barrett
Michael Barrett
Catcher who played for four MLB teams from 1998 to 2009; won a Silver Slugger Award while playing with the Chicago Cubs in 2005.
ProfessionBaseball Player
Date of Birth22 October 1976
CityAtlanta, GA
deal might table
We're all tradable, and if there is a deal on the table that might make us win, anything can happen.
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For me, the best thing was being around Michael Young more than anybody. I got a chance to hit in his group and study the way he hits. I don't know how it will translate the rest of the season, but from that point on when I was hitting with him, I took that approach to keep everything crisp and clean and sharp, and things started working a little bit. Who knows, I might have found something. I'm going to keep riding it out as long as it works.
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I got a chance to study the way he hits. I don't know how it's going to translate into the rest of the season. Who knows, I might have found something. I'm going to keep riding it out as long as it works.
believe definitely fallen good miracle realizing stay team
We're going to need a miracle now to stay in this thing. I believe in those, but it's definitely frustrating realizing how good of a team we have and how we've fallen short.
thinks whenever
Whenever we lose, he thinks he's going to have cardiac arrest.
dictate good hit pitches
Where I hit in the lineup shouldn't dictate my performance. It has no correlation. I just have to get good pitches to hit.
easy force hoping
We were hoping to force turnovers and get some easy baskets, which we did.
good guy hitter moved people position time tough
I still think people have a tough time visualizing me as a catcher. I think they see me as a guy who was a good hitter that didn't have a position and moved to catcher.
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We're currently investigating but there is no indication to that effect (that it was an attack). This is an underground pipeline.
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afford prove slow work
We have a lot to prove early, and we have a lot of work to do early. To get to where we need to go, we can't afford a slow start.
thrive
We need them to produce. We don't need them to just survive, we need them to thrive to win.
hoping issue
We are hoping to get in there today, but that's the issue - getting there.
bad life pitch start totally
It got things off to a bad start that inning. You make that play and it's a totally different inning. That's the life of a pitcher. You have to get through that and pitch through that.