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
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They can ask all their questions with the doctors in there. We don't want any confusion. Shut the door and let the players talk among themselves, just them and the docs.
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It's hard when you're going to take the best 30 players out of the United States. It's a tough task. It doesn't motivate us. We have good players. We have confidence in what we're trying to do. We don't need that to motivate us.
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He's a professional player, a pro that you want your younger players to emulate. He will see a lot of time for us at third base. He could really help us.
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We've got the nucleus of our team in place. These young players ... we haven't scratched the surface of what they'll be able to accomplish.
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The difference between us last year and us this year was those young players being here getting us over the hump.
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I know these guys will play with a lot of heart and a lot of pride. I knew it was matter of time before we got it going again.
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I knew it was something we had to do,
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I'm real superstitious. Somehow, I don't believe it's the uniform.
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It's not going to be easy. And nothing worthwhile is easy.
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It's not a concern to me. I hadn't even thought about it. Jenkins is swinging the bat OK.
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Everybody was a little off today, command-wise. Especially for the younger kids, there's always some jitters. They'll settle down.
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The average person probably doesn't understand what he has done and the accomplishments he's achieved, ... To win 14 consecutive years, it's like Joe DiMaggio's 56-game hitting streak - it's a record that never will be broken. He has done it with tremendous turnover in roster. He has done it under difficult circumstances. He has done it with rookies. He has done it with veterans. He just does it year after year after year.
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That is the class of the National League for the last 14 years. It's pretty big. We've never even won a series at home against them, much less a sweep. We played good, consistent baseball to do it -- with pitching, good timely hitting. It was a nice series.
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It was just one of those days. He just wasn't sharp tonight. I was hoping he could go two innings but his fast ball was up and he wasn't locating his pitches.