Nick Swisher
Nick Swisher
Nicholas Thompson Swisheris an American professional baseball right fielder and first baseman who is a free agent. He is a switch hitter who throws left-handed, and has played in Major League Baseballfor the Oakland Athletics, Chicago White Sox, New York Yankees, Cleveland Indians, and Atlanta Braves. He won the 2009 World Series with the Yankees against the Philadelphia Phillies and was an All-Star in 2010...
ProfessionBaseball Player
Date of Birth25 November 1980
CityColumbus, OH
bat level people swing talk wood
People always talk about having two different swings, an aluminum bat swing and a wood swing. It is one of those things where you have to make an adjustment. But if you want to play at this level you have to be able to do that.
capable hitters rocking time
Our hitters know what we're capable of doing. It's just going to take us a little time to get rocking and rolling.
bases guy horrible last man mound
Last year, I was horrible with the bases loaded. I was like, 'Oh, man, oh, man,' I'd get jittery. Now, I'm not the guy who's in trouble, it's the guy on the mound who's in trouble.
clubhouse emotions guys pay people prove running starting
I think it's going to be awesome. I don't think there's any other way to put it. Emotions will be running high. All the guys in this clubhouse know what we have, and other people are starting to pay attention, so we'll just have to go out and prove it.
baseball card worried
He made a little adjustment. No one in here is worried about that guy. All you have to do is look on the back of his baseball card and know that everything is going to be all right.
hit trying
I wasn't trying to think very much today, I was just going up there to see it and hit it, ... Sometimes you can think about it too much.
glad good
Good for him. I'm glad to have him back.
ahead gives momentum pull road trip win
That was huge. The way things have been going, to pull off a win like we did today, especially with a long road trip ahead of us, it gives us momentum and confidence.
game imagined
That was really neat, ... I never imagined that it would end up that way when the game started.
moving tree rubber
Everyone knows an ant, can't, move a rubber tree plant.
spring oakland afternoon
It's been like that all spring. It's just that balls decided to hang up there. It's hard to catch it when you can't see it. But that's how it's going to be in Oakland in the afternoon anyway.
swings trying looks
I'm being a lot more consistent, trying to make every swing look the same. I'm doing what the situation calls for and trying not to do too much.
morning party thinking
I woke up this morning and I said to my self, 'Self, I think we need to party today'.
rest teams
You can't really look at what other teams are doing. The rest of the season's in our hands.