Mike Redmond
Mike Redmond
Michael Patrick Redmondis an American former professional baseball catcher and manager. He played for 13 seasons in Major League Baseball with the Florida Marlins, Minnesota Twins, and Cleveland Indians. In 864 career games, Redmond recorded a batting average of .287 and accumulated 13 home runs, and 243 runs batted in...
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I think he's already one of the best ? if not the best ? catchers in all of baseball. He's going to continue to improve. People talk about power and hitting enough home runs. It takes awhile to adjust to the pitching. He's a contact hitter. He's not a free swinger.
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That was probably the best double-play combination in baseball.
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I like the feel of our team, man. All the guys have just fit in great and are great guys. I'm excited, I really am. With our pitching and mix of guys we have, I think we're in good shape.
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I'm like, did I just see that? ... I jumped up and said, 'Great job! But don't ever do that again!' Deep down, I was going, 'Man, that's impressive. A spring training game and this guy's going all out.'
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I've preached to a lot of guys in here about playing and finishing strong. Sure, it's a little frustrating for myself to not be able to finish.
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I've played through it, but it just got to the point where that was it. I couldn't basically run. I feel good about doing everything I could. I battled through a majority of the season, especially the last two weeks.
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This is probably the most painful thing I've been through.
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Sometimes I laugh when we talk. I'm 13 years older than he is. He's got a great grasp for what's going on out there. I don't think I've ever talked to a 22-year-old kid with as much of a good idea as he has.
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You've got to suck it up. It shows you what our team's made of. This team has a lot of character. We're not going to give up.
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You're not really focused on necessarily getting guys out more than you are trying to execute some pitches. Most of the time, we have in our plan just trying to get ahead with our fastball and mix in some breaking balls.
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Obviously, anytime you get beat and go 0-9 against teams in your own division, sure, those things hurt. We just haven't played that well. Do we still play them 16 more times each? Yeah. So who's to say we can't win 12 or 13 from each of those teams. We could do that, too. That's what's great about playing teams in your division so many times.
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Nobody was enjoying those types of conditions. It's just not fun playing baseball when it's 100 degrees out. It's just miserable. You have to suck it up. It shows what your team is made of when you play in tough conditions. Our team has a lot of character.
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It's kind of always an uncomfortable catch because you can't really consistently expect the ball to be in the same spot. Every pitch does something different. You know it's coming, but you've got to be ready for anything.
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I preached to a lot of guys in here about playing and finishing strong. It's frustrating for myself to not be able to finish, but I know it's an injury I've had for quite a bit of the season and have played through it. It got to the point where I couldn't do it anymore. I couldn't.