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
good hit lamb situation
I think Lamb is a very good hitter, ... I've let Lamb hit in that situation many times.
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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.
move situation
Tonight, we had a double-play situation and made the move right there.
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The Bagwell thing has the propensity to be difficult. We all love Baggy and this is a unique situation. In all my years in the game, I don't think I've seen a situation like this, nor have I been involved in one by any stretch of the imagination.
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It's like that 600-pound gorilla sitting in the room that nobody wants to talk about. If you keep going too many innings without scoring runs, everybody starts trying to do too much in one bat. And that's when you get in trouble.
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The misfortunes created by some situations can turn out to be pretty good for you, and in this case Craig leading off is a good situation. I don't mind having to do that at all.
jack price situations
This is going to be one of those situations where ... we're used to jack up the price again.
chris discuss figure might sit spring willing
I will sit down with him at spring training, and we'll discuss what we might need to do. I know Chris is willing to do anything we want him to do. We'll see what makes sense and figure out a way to get him some at-bats.
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He's certainly a plus defensive player, and if he ends up showing he can swing the bat ... and he gets his foot in the door, it might be one of those situations where you can't get him out.
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He handles everything well, and for a guy who plays maybe once a week, it's tough to do well in a job like that. Pinch-hitting is one of the toughest jobs, you're usually facing somebody tough. It's hard to sit around for three or four days, then try to go up there and get a key at-bat in a critical situation.
putting situation
I'll say something to them, ... by putting them right back into the same situation come Tuesday.
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He pitched well, of course, the year before. And last year I saw some major improvement in him. I thought he calmed down. I thought he came into the game with a real good game plan. I thought he executed his game plans. To me, he matured a lot last year. He seemed more confident on the mound. He pitched in some big situations and he got some outs in some big situations.
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He pitched very, very well in some of the most tense situations that you can ever be in. And he can go back and say 'this is the way I did it. I don't have to fool anybody. I can trust my stuff.
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.