Phil Garner
Phil Garner
Philip Mason Garneris an American former baseball player. He played in Major League Baseball as an infielder with the Oakland Athletics, Pittsburgh Pirates, Houston Astros, Los Angeles Dodgers and San Francisco Giants from 1973 to 1988. He was manager of the Astros from July 14, 2004 to August 27, 2007, leading Houston to a World Series appearance in 2005...
ProfessionBaseball Player
Date of Birth30 April 1949
CityJefferson City, TN
becomes besides brad catcher difficult gone guy looking offense pitchers second sit work
We have traditionally gone with only a second catcher and I'm looking to do that again. The guy becomes important because he's the only guy you have besides Brad. He's also a guy who's going to have to sit around a lot because Brad is going to play a lot. He's got to work with the pitchers and we'd like to get some offense out of him as well, but that's difficult to do because he doesn't play much.
absolute change difficult faith field losing people personnel requires turn
When you go into an organization that's been losing and you try to change the culture, it's a difficult job. It requires absolute faith from ownership. You've got to do some things on the field with your personnel that people don't like. But you've got to do it if you're going to turn it around.
caught chavez difficult might playing playoff staff
It might be a little more difficult to get (Quintero) a whole lot of playing time, ... Chavez has had playoff experience, and he's caught our whole staff more than Quintero.
difficult evaluate feels given
We'll see how he feels tomorrow. It's all part of the process. It's difficult to evaluate him on any one given day.
difficult leeway pick pitch plate throw
We didn't have much leeway to run. When they're 1.2 (seconds) to the plate and with Molina, that's difficult to run. You have to pick a pitch to do it on, and he didn't throw many curveballs.
difficult leeway pick pitch plate throw
We didn't have much leeway to run, ... When they're 1.2 (seconds) to the plate and with Molina, that's difficult to run. You have to pick a pitch to do it on, and he didn't throw many curveballs.
difficult games rest win year
I think it's going to be difficult because (Clemens) will probably win the rest of the games this year (and) that's going to tighten it up,
across anybody arm ball change crossing diamond difficult double extremely guys move quick second seen strong throw time turning unusual
Guys usually have a very difficult time crossing the diamond in the infield. But he's extremely quick, as quick as anybody I've ever seen at turning a double play. That's unusual for a guy to have such a strong arm, who can throw the ball across the diamond and then move to second and immediately be able to change his arm angle.
against ball bat care decent few good job pitches swinging team threw
We just had a lot of Dontrelle Willis tonight, more than I'd care to see, ... Brandon (Backe) threw the ball well. He had a lot of good pitches and only a few mistakes. That was a decent job against a team that is really swinging the bat well.
care
We just had a lot of Dontrelle Willis tonight, more than I'd care to see.
against bottom good job line missed pitches pitching zone
We missed some pitches that we should have hit, and we expanded the (strike) zone sometimes when we probably shouldn't have. But the bottom line is they did a pretty good job of pitching against us.
happening hits parts timely
What's happening is we're getting timely hits and we're doing it from all parts of the lineup.
balls three
We had three balls that should have been caught,
good normally
We had the lead. When we get it, normally we keep it. We will. We're good at it. We've been doing it all year.