Ned Yost
Ned Yost
Edgar Frederick "Ned" Yost IIIis a former Major League Baseball catcher and current manager of the Kansas City Royals. He previously managed the Milwaukee Brewers, and played for the Brewers, Texas Rangers, and Montreal Expos...
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth19 August 1955
CityEureka, CA
experience farm gain game learn practicing stuff valuable
A lot of this stuff you learn in games. That's where you learn because it's at game speed. Experience you gain in a game is farm more valuable than going out and practicing something.
ask living mental throwing
They make a living throwing the ball. It's a mental thing, it's in their heads, and don't ask me why.
capable eyes fact league opened ready
They opened my eyes, offensively, to the fact that they were capable of being big league players, and they opened eyes, defensively, and showed us that they weren't ready to be big league players.
house
They need that adrenaline, they need that packed house to really get going.
ben good great matched performance pitch sharp stayed tonight
They got a great performance out of Arroyo. He was very sharp and stayed on the attack. Ben was good tonight but Arroyo matched him pitch for pitch.
fine performance
They got a fine performance out of Bronson Arroyo, and that was the difference.
beat elite teams time
They're one of the elite teams in the league. Any time that you play the measuring stick, you want to beat them.
ball bat catch field guys pitchers reason swing throw win
There's a reason why guys win 300 games. They can field their position, they can swing the bat and they can throw strikes. That's a big part of his game. There's not a lot of pitchers that catch that ball. That ball was smashed. That was a big play.
interested reason
That's why I was so interested in this job. That's the reason right there.
help hurts
That's going to help us as much as it hurts us.
billy finding hall hardest playing season
That's going to be the hardest thing I'm going to have to do this season is finding Billy Hall playing time.
good shows
That shows you why we feel good about where we're going.
hitter shows
That shows the kind of hitter he is.
guy hit problem
You're behind, you get on the attack, and the guy hit it out of the park. I've got no problem with that.