Mike Hargrove
Mike Hargrove
Dudley Michael Hargroveis a former Major League Baseball first baseman and manager. He is currently employed as an advisor with the Cleveland Indians. Hargrove batted and threw left-handed. He played for the Texas Rangers, San Diego Padres, and Cleveland Indians. After retiring, he went on to manage the Indians, Baltimore Orioles, and Seattle Mariners...
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth26 October 1949
score win
We pitched well enough to win tonight. We just didn't score any runs.
hopefully liked lose saw spring training
We liked what we saw of him in spring training and hopefully we don't lose him. But he wasn't getting the at-bats here and there wasn't the (likelihood) for him to get at-bats.
added bases earlier load rest run score sort
When you load the bases with no outs, you want to score more than one run. When we added Lopez's two to the run we got earlier that inning, it was sort of a springboard for the rest of the game.
easy guys pitches start struggling taking
When you're struggling like we were, it's easy to start pressing. Our guys didn't do that. We started taking more pitches and getting into better counts.
catcher felt
We don't have a No. 1 catcher here. We felt like we wanted to see what Ojeda could do. I think this makes sense. We feel we need to look at this kid.
good learning rather thankful
You look back and are thankful that he reacted the way he did. It's not good to see him get into trouble, but it's good to see him get out of trouble. I'd rather have less-stressful learning experiences.
goes hate lose mind platoon send using willie
If Willie goes out there every day, you lose a lot of your flexibility. I wouldn't mind using him out of a platoon situation, but I'd hate to send him out there every day.
chances continues late pitch pitching safe sorry stays throw
He was disappointed. If he continues to pitch the way he's pitching now and stays healthy, he's going to have a lot of chances to throw shutouts. I think this late in the season, better safe than sorry is the way to go.
against baltimore discussing happen hitting intrigued realm
I always have been intrigued by Ichiro hitting third. When I managed against him with Baltimore I was intrigued by the idea. It is not out of the realm of possibility that it would happen here. ... That would never be done without first discussing it with Ichiro.
close
He won't be at that level. But he'll be close to it.
anyone holding kenny ways
We don't have anyone with an exceptional move, no one like Kenny Rogers. But there are other ways of holding runners.
came discussed guy names
We discussed names and Jaime is the guy we came up with, ... Jamie.
cleveland hair looked maybe recovered turned vision
When I had Richie in Cleveland he did this once, and I told him he looked like a Q-Tip. Maybe when his vision recovered his hair just turned that color.
mental specific talk
There are some specific things we wanted to talk to Felix about. They're more mental things than anything else.